The brothers Karamazov : a novel in four parts and an epilogue
by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 (Author)
Summary
The violent lives of three sons are exposed when their father is murdered and each one attempts to come to terms with his guilt. Full description
Summary: |
The violent lives of three sons are exposed when their father is murdered and each one attempts to come to terms with his guilt. |
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Item Description: |
"First published 1880"--T.p. verso. "Reissued with revisions 2003"--T.p. verso. |
Physical Description: |
xxx, 1013 p. ; 20 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780140449242 0140449248 |
Author Notes: |
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk (1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came The House of the Dead (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Vremya (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed Notes from Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The major novels of his late period are The Idiot (1868), Demons (1871-2) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). He died in 1881. David McDuff (Introducer, Translator) David McDuff 's translations for Penguin Classics include Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment , The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot , and Babel's short stories. |