The Brothers Karamazov

byFyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)

Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

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A murder in a provincial town becomes a trial of faith itself.

When Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is killed, suspicion falls on his eldest son Dmitri. Yet beneath the evidence lies a deeper conflict between three brothers whose beliefs could not be more opposed.

Ivan wrestles with doubt. Alyosha seeks spiritual truth. Rivalries sharpen, loyalties fracture and hidden resentments surface. As the courtroom drama unfolds, the question of guilt extends beyond fact into conscience.

The verdict may be delivered in court, but the true judgement belongs to the soul.

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY

Dostoevsky makes Martin Amis seem as if he was writing 130 years ago and that Dostoevsky is writing now. Read all of Dostoevsky. These books are for now and they matter, because it's up to us to call a halt to our TV producers, politicians, gutless artists, poets and writers: these "teenagers of all ages" who are propelling us towards a consumerist hell of disposability over quality

Billy Childish

About Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk (1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came The House of the Dead (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Vremya (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed Notes from Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The major novels of his late period are The Idiot (1868), Demons (1871-2) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). He died in 1881.
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  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • ISBN: 9780099922803
  • Length: 816 pages
  • Dimensions: 197mm x 43mm x 128mm
  • Weight: 590g
  • Price: £10.99
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