The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780704327733.

The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevskys crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide and family rivalry that embodies the moral and spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s). It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication, in 1866, of Crime and Punishment. To Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov captured the quintessence of Russian character in all its exaltation, compassion, and profligacy. Significantly, the book was on Tolstoys bedside table when he died. Readers in every language have since accepted Dostoevskys own evaluation of this work and have gone further by proclaiming it one of the few great novels of all ages and countries.