<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Dostoyevskys masterpiece introduces a world filled with greed, passion, depravity, and complex moral issues, as three brothers become involved in the brutal murder of their own father. This edition features an Afterword by bestselling author Sara Peretsky. Revised reissue.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The final masterpiece from the celebrated author of <i>Crime and Punishment</i> and <i>The Idiot</i>...</b> <p/>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 . . . Alyosha, gentle, loving, honest . . . and the illegitimate Smerdyakov, sly, silent, cruel. Driven by intense passion, they become involved in the brutal murder of their own father, one of the most loathsome characters in all literature. Featuring the famous chapter, "The Grand Inquisitor," Dostoyevsky's final masterpiece is at once a complex character study, a riveting murder mystery, and a fascinating examination of man's morality and the question of God's existence. <p/><b> Translated by Constance Garnett<br> Edited and with a Foreword by Manuel Komroff<br>and an Afterword by Sara Paretsky<br></b><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Dostoyevsky paints like Rembrandt, and his portraits are artistically so powerful and often so perfect that even if they lacked the depths of thought that lie behind them and around them, I believe that Dostoyevsky would still be the greatest of all novelists."--André Gide<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), one of nineteenth-century Russia's greatest novelists, spent four years in a convict prison in Siberia, after which he was obliged to enlist in the army. In later years his penchant for gambling sent him deeply into debt. Most of his important works were written after 1864, including <b>Notes from Underground</b>, <b>Crime and Punishment</b>, <b>The Idiot</b>, and <b>The Brothers Karamazov, </b> all available from Penguin Classics.
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