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Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith, meaning and morality, The Brothers Karamazov is translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff in Penguin Classics.

Winner of the Pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize

The award-winning translation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic novel of psychological realism.

The final masterpiece from the celebrated author of Crime and Punishment and The Idiot ... This extraordinary novel, Dostoyevsky's last and greatest work, tells the dramatic story of four brothers--Dmitri, pleasure-seeking, impatient, unruly . . . Ivan, brilliant and morose ... Read Full Overview

Dostoevsky's greatest novel is a story of murder told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith, meaning and morality, The Brothers Karamazov is translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff in Penguin Classics.

Dostoevsky's final, greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov, paints a complex and richly detailed portrait of a family tormented by its extraordinarily cruel patriarch, Fyodor Pavlovich, whose callous decisions slowly decimate the lives of his sons--the eponymous brothers Karamazov--and...

Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons--the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and... Read Full Overview

Completed only a few months before the author's death, The Brothers Karamazov is Dostoyevsky's largest, most expansive, most life-embracing work. Filled with human passions ? lust, greed, love, jealousy, sorrow, and humor ? the book is also infused with moral issues and the issue... Read Full Overview

The final masterpiece from the celebrated author of Crime and Punishment and The Idiot ... This extraordinary novel, Dostoyevsky's last and greatest work, tells the dramatic story of four brothers--Dmitri, pleasure-seeking, impatient, unruly . . . Ivan, brilliant and morose ... Read Full Overview

The final masterpiece from the celebrated author of Crime and Punishment and The Idiot ... This extraordinary novel, Dostoyevsky's last and greatest work, tells the dramatic story of four brothers--Dmitri, pleasure-seeking, impatient, unruly . . . Ivan, brilliant and morose ... Read Full Overview

The text is accompanied by a detailed introduction, a pronunciation and explanation key for the novel's main characters, and greatly revised and expanded explanatory annotations.

"Contexts" presents a wealth of background and source materials relating to The Brothers... Read Full Overview

In 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov , the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder- Dmitry, the sensualist, Ivan, the intellectual;... Read Full Overview

A monumental literary masterpiece that delves into the depths of human nature, morality, and spirituality. Set in nineteenth-century Russia, the novel follows the lives of the Karamazov brothers: Ivan, Dmitri, and Alexei. Their tumultuous relationships, personal struggles, and... Read Full Overview

Winner of the Pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: , Brat'ya Karamazovy, pronounced [bratj krmazv]), also translated as The Karamazov... Read Full Overview

This publication of "The Brothers Karamazov" includes: An annotation "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a monumental work of Russian literature that delves into the complexities of human nature, morality, and spirituality. Set in 19th-century Russia, the novel follows... Read Full Overview