The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov, also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the last novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880. Dostoevsky died less than four months after its publication.
Set in 19th-century Russia, The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that enters deeply into questions of God, free will, and morality. It is a theological drama dealing with problems of faith, doubt and reason in the context of a modernizing Russia, with a plot that revolves around the subject of patricide. Dostoevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which inspired the main setting. It has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.
Excerpted from The Brothers Karamazov on Wikipedia.
The Brothers Karamazov
| Author | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Country | Russia |
| Genre | Philosophical fiction, Didactic fiction, Existentialist novels, Theological fiction |
| Copyright | Public domain in the United States. |
| Book cover | Image: rawpixel |
| Ebooks | Project Gutenberg |
| Scans | Google-digitized |
| Audio | Librivox | Internet Archive |
| Read online | The Brothers Karamazov I, II, III, IV --Read by Bruce Pirie-- |