The Brothers Karamazov -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Paperback

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; Alyosha, the mystic; and twisted, cunning Smerdyakov, the bastard child. Frequently lurid, nightmarish, always brilliant, the novel plunges the reader into a sordid love triangle, a pathological obsession, and a gripping courtroom drama. But throughout the whole, Dostoevsky searhes for the truth--about man, about life, about the existence of God. A terrifying answer to man's eternal questions, this monumental work remains the crowning achievement of perhaps the finest novelist of all time.

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Published: 04/01/1984
Pages: 1072
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 6.92h x 4.24w x 1.78d
ISBN: 9780553212167

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 10.4
Point Value: 74
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 60045 / Brothers Karamazov


Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 97

About the Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky's life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821, and when he died in 1881, he left a legacy of masterworks that influenced the great thinkers and writers of the Western world and immortalized him as a giant among writers of world literature.