The Brothers Karamazov
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In the smouldering heart of nineteenth-century Russia, The Brothers Karamazov chronicles the violent collision of faith, doubt, and desire through the fractured Karamazov family — a dissolute father, three sons of radically opposing temperaments, and a murder that tears them apart. Fyodor Dostoevsky constructs a towering philosophical drama in which each brother embodies a distinct worldview: the passionate sensualist Dmitri, the cold rationalist Ivan, and the saintly novice Alyosha, whose spiritual grace serves as the novel's moral compass. Widely regarded as the summit of Dostoevsky's artistic achievement and one of the greatest novels ever written, The Brothers Karamazov argues with ferocious urgency against nihilism and for the redemptive power of suffering and love. The author's prose — rendered here in Constance Garnett's celebrated English translation — moves with the force of a psychological thriller and the depth of a theological treatise, weaving together courtroom drama, monastic wisdom, and human depravity into a single, unforgettable whole. To read it is to confront the most fundamental questions of existence: Does God exist? Can humanity be redeemed? And who, in the end, bears responsibility for evil?
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, Heinemann, London
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In the smouldering heart of nineteenth-century Russia, The Brothers Karamazov chronicles the violent collision of faith, doubt, and desire through the fractured Karamazov family — a dissolute father, three sons of radically opposing temperaments, and a murder that tears them apart. Fyodor Dostoevsky constructs a towering philosophical drama in which each brother embodies a distinct worldview: the passionate sensualist Dmitri, the cold rationalist Ivan, and the saintly novice Alyosha, whose spiritual grace serves as the novel's moral compass. Widely regarded as the summit of Dostoevsky's artistic achievement and one of the greatest novels ever written, The Brothers Karamazov argues with ferocious urgency against nihilism and for the redemptive power of suffering and love. The author's prose — rendered here in Constance Garnett's celebrated English translation — moves with the force of a psychological thriller and the depth of a theological treatise, weaving together courtroom drama, monastic wisdom, and human depravity into a single, unforgettable whole. To read it is to confront the most fundamental questions of existence: Does God exist? Can humanity be redeemed? And who, in the end, bears responsibility for evil?