Editions

The Brothers Karamazov

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780140449242

  • Length: 1056  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 44mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 713g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Brothers Karamazov

'The most magnificent novel ever written' Sigmund Freud

The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, driven to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother, Smerdyakov. Dostoyevsky's dark masterwork evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur, and everyone's faith in humanity is tested.

Translated with an Introduction and notes by DAVID McDUFF

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780140449242

  • Length: 1056  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 44mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 713g

  • RRP: £8.99

More from this Author

View all View all
View all View all

About the Author

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Related articles

/content/dam/prh/articles/adults/2018/september/Penguin_UGCReadingList_ArticleCard.png

Recommendations

100 must-read classic books, as chosen by our readers

05 September 2018
/content/dam/prh/articles/archive/Vintage-Classics-Russians-spines-close-up.jpg

Recommendations

Reading the revolution: 6 Russian Classics

30 January 2017

We use cookies on this site and by continuing to browse it you agree to us sending you cookies.

For more on our cookies and changing your settings click here.