The Brothers Karamazov

Product Description<br/><br/>The final masterpiece from the celebrated author of Crime and Punishment and The Idiot...<br/><br/>This extraordinary novel, Dostoyevsky’s last and greatest work, tells the dramatic story of four brothers—Dmitri, pleasure-seeking, impatient, unruly . . . Ivan, brilliant and morose . . . Alyosha, gentle, loving, honest . . . and the illegitimate Smerdyakov, sly, silent, cruel. Driven by intense passion, they become involved in the brutal murder of their own father, one of the most loathsome characters in all literature. Featuring the famous chapter, “The Grand Inquisitor,” Dostoyevsky’s final masterpiece is at once a complex character study, a riveting murder mystery, and a fascinating examination of man’s morality and the question of God’s existence.<br/><br/>Translated by Constance Garnett<br/>Edited and with a Foreword by Manuel Komroff<br/>and an Afterword by Sara Paretsky<br/><br/><br/>Review<br/><br/>“Dostoyevsky paints like Rembrandt, and his portraits are artistically so powerful and often so perfect that even if they lacked the depths of thought that lie behind them and around them, I believe that Dostoyevsky would still be the greatest of all novelists.”—André Gide<br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/>Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–81) was educated in Moscow and at the School of Military Engineers in St. Petersburg, where he spent four years. In 1844, he resigned his commission in the army to devote himself to literature. In 1846, he published his first novel, which won immediate critical and popular success. Three years later, he was arrested for belonging to a socialist group and condemned to death, but at the last moment, his sentence was commuted to prison in Siberia. In 1859, he was granted full amnesty and allowed to return to St. Petersburg. In the fourteen years before his death, Dostoyevsky produced his greatest works, including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed, and The Brothers Karamazov.<br/><br/>Manuel Komroff, a book editor and critic, was the author of numerous novels, story collections, histories, and biographies, as well as the screenplay for the acclaimed Marlene Dietrich film The Scarlet Empress.<br/><br/>Sara Paretsky is the New York Times bestselling author of several novels featuring private eye V. I. Warshawski. She has won numerous awards, including the Diamond Dagger Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Crime Writers’ Association.