The Brothers Karamazov: In Two Volumes: Volume One
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Few novels in the history of world literature possess the moral grandeur and psychological ferocity of The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky's towering final masterpiece. Set in nineteenth-century Russia, it chronicles the turbulent lives of the three Karamazov brothers — the sensual and impulsive Dmitri, the intellectual and sceptical Ivan, and the gentle, spiritually luminous Alyosha — as they are drawn into a vortex of patricide, passion, faith, and doubt following the murder of their debauched father, Fyodor Pavlovich. Translated with celebrated fidelity by Constance Garnett and introduced by Edward Garnett, this Everyman's Library edition presents Dostoevsky's genius in its most accessible and authoritative English form. The novel argues, with relentless philosophical urgency, that questions of God, free will, and human suffering are not abstract puzzles but the very marrow of existence — a conviction that elevates it far beyond the genre of the crime narrative. Dostoevsky's prose is volcanic in its emotional range, moving from courtroom drama to mystical parable with breathtaking ease, and the haunting question at its heart — can mankind bear the burden of true freedom? — resonates with as much force today as when it was first published in 1880.
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Few novels in the history of world literature possess the moral grandeur and psychological ferocity of The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky's towering final masterpiece. Set in nineteenth-century Russia, it chronicles the turbulent lives of the three Karamazov brothers — the sensual and impulsive Dmitri, the intellectual and sceptical Ivan, and the gentle, spiritually luminous Alyosha — as they are drawn into a vortex of patricide, passion, faith, and doubt following the murder of their debauched father, Fyodor Pavlovich. Translated with celebrated fidelity by Constance Garnett and introduced by Edward Garnett, this Everyman's Library edition presents Dostoevsky's genius in its most accessible and authoritative English form. The novel argues, with relentless philosophical urgency, that questions of God, free will, and human suffering are not abstract puzzles but the very marrow of existence — a conviction that elevates it far beyond the genre of the crime narrative. Dostoevsky's prose is volcanic in its emotional range, moving from courtroom drama to mystical parable with breathtaking ease, and the haunting question at its heart — can mankind bear the burden of true freedom? — resonates with as much force today as when it was first published in 1880.