The Brothers Karamazov

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 27 February 2003 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 1056 pages
199 x 135 x 46mm | 714g

'The most magnificent novel ever written' Sigmund FreudThe murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, driven to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother, Smerdyakov. Dostoyevsky's dark masterwork evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur, and everyone's faith in humanity is tested.

Translated with an Introduction and notes by DAVID McDUFF