| Genre: | Literature |
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| Language : | English |
| Published: | April 01, 1984 |
| Edition: | 21st |
Paperback | |
| ISBN13: | 9780553212167 |
| ISBN10: | 0553212168 |
| Dimensions: | 4.2 x 6.87 x 1.75 inches |
| Weight: | 510 g |
About the Book
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; Alyosha, the mystic; and twisted, cunning Smerdyakov, the bastard child. Frequently lurid, nightmarish, always brilliant, the novel plunges the reader into a sordid love triangle, a pathological obsession, and a gripping courtroom drama. But throughout the whole, Dostoevsky searhes for the truth--about man, about life, about the existence of God. A terrifying answer to man's eternal questions, this monumental work remains the crowning achievement of perhaps the finest novelist of all time.