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

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

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... Read Full Overview

Immerse yourself in one of the greatest philosophical novels ever written--The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. This profound and multi-layered Russian classic explores the depths of human nature through the story of the three Karamazov brothers--each embodying... Read Full Overview

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

A handsome new collectible edition of Pevear and Volokhonsky's peerless translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece with a new foreword from Karl Ove Knausgaard.

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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

Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, The Brothers Karamazov stands as a masterpiece of Russian literature. In the trials of three brothers--Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha--Dostoevsky traces threads of the deepest questions, from belief and doubt, to joy... 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.

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

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

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

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

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

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY

Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov delves into the moral dilemmas and existential struggles of the Karamazov family. Set in 19th-century Russia, this profound novel examines themes of faith, reason and the nature of evil, captivating readers with its psychological... Read Full Overview