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.

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

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 97

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