The Brothers Karamazoff
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Binding poor. Internally sound. Plates intact.
Few novels in the Western canon match the shattering moral ambition of The Brothers Karamazoff, Fyodor Dostoivsky's final and most towering masterwork. Set in nineteenth-century Russia, the novel chronicles the volatile Karamazov family — the debauched patriarch Fyodor and his starkly different sons, Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha — as they are drawn into a vortex of passion, patricide, and spiritual crisis that lays bare the very soul of humanity. Presented here in an English translation by Jenny Covan as part of The Moscow Art Theatre Series of Russian Plays, this edition frames the narrative within a rich theatrical tradition, underscoring the drama's immense stagecraft and psychological intensity. Dostoivsky's prose argues ceaselessly with God, free will, and the nature of evil, weaving together courtroom spectacle, monastic wisdom, and raw human suffering into a tapestry of unparalleled depth. Edited by Oliver M. Sayler and published by Brentano's Ltd. of London, this volume represents a vital cultural bridge between the Russian literary tradition and the English-speaking world — leaving the reader to wrestle with questions that no verdict, divine or earthly, can fully resolve.
Author: Fyodor Dostoivsky; translated by Jenny Covan
Format: Hardback
Published: 1924, Brentano's Ltd.
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Binding poor. Internally sound. Plates intact.
Few novels in the Western canon match the shattering moral ambition of The Brothers Karamazoff, Fyodor Dostoivsky's final and most towering masterwork. Set in nineteenth-century Russia, the novel chronicles the volatile Karamazov family — the debauched patriarch Fyodor and his starkly different sons, Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha — as they are drawn into a vortex of passion, patricide, and spiritual crisis that lays bare the very soul of humanity. Presented here in an English translation by Jenny Covan as part of The Moscow Art Theatre Series of Russian Plays, this edition frames the narrative within a rich theatrical tradition, underscoring the drama's immense stagecraft and psychological intensity. Dostoivsky's prose argues ceaselessly with God, free will, and the nature of evil, weaving together courtroom spectacle, monastic wisdom, and raw human suffering into a tapestry of unparalleled depth. Edited by Oliver M. Sayler and published by Brentano's Ltd. of London, this volume represents a vital cultural bridge between the Russian literary tradition and the English-speaking world — leaving the reader to wrestle with questions that no verdict, divine or earthly, can fully resolve.