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The Brothers Karamazov also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880. The author died less than four months after its publication. The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia, with a plot which revolves around the subject of patricide. Dostoyevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which inspired the main setting. Since its publication, it has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (January 4, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 680 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1541398572
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1541398573
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.54 x 9 inches
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (/ˌdɒstəˈjɛfski, ˌdʌs-/; Russian: Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский; IPA: [ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ dəstɐˈjɛfskʲɪj]; 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. Many of his works are marked by a preoccupation with Christianity, explored through the prism of the individual confronted with life's hardships and beauty.

He began writing in his 20s, and his first novel, Poor Folk, was published in 1846 when he was 25. His major works include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). His output consists of 11 novels, three novellas, 17 short novels and numerous other works. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychologists in world literature. His 1864 novella Notes from Underground is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature.

Born in Moscow in 1821, Dostoyevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends, and through books by Russian and foreign authors. His mother died in 1837, when he was 15, and around the same time he left school to enter the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute. After graduating, he worked as an engineer and briefly enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, translating books to earn extra money. In the mid-1840s he wrote his first novel, Poor Folk, which gained him entry into St. Petersburg's literary circles.

In the following years, Dostoyevsky worked as a journalist, publishing and editing several magazines of his own and later A Writer's Diary, a collection of his writings. He began to travel around western Europe and developed a gambling addiction, which led to financial hardship. For a time, he had to beg for money, but he eventually became one of the most widely read and highly regarded Russian writers. His books have been translated into more than 170 languages. Dostoyevsky influenced a multitude of writers and philosophers, from Anton Chekhov and Ernest Hemingway to Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre.

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Frank Donnelly
5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Novel, Not an Easy Book to Read, Required My Full Attention
Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2020
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I really liked "The Brothers Karamazov". It is the final novel of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Mister Dostoevsky is my personal favorite Russian Author. I have read numerous Russian Novels by numerous authors including Tolstoy, but I am far from an expert. The novel is quite lengthy and does not have modern, conversational American English easy flow to it. I had to take breaks to keep my concentration and read lighter work to let my brain rest.

This novel is a philisophical novel. It is not an easy read. Dostoevsky is a very sophisticated thinker and writer. There are some lengthy discourses that required my full attention. I can't help but wonder if some of these lengthy discourses influenced Ayn Rand. I am specifically thinking of John Galt's speech in "Atlas Shrugged".

I have read most of Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction in the order of their publication. I am glad that I did that, as I could relate much of his earlier works to this, his final novel. I think that the three Dostoevsky works that this book reminded me most of were "Crime and Punishment", "The Idiot", and "Notes from The Underground".

In summary, I really enjoyed this novel and am very glad to have read it. It is lengthy and sophisticated. It required my full attention. I was glad that I read his other works first. This novel is excellent, but will not suit the taste of every modern reader. No matter how much I appreciated the novel, in truth I would need a good reason to read it again. Thank You...
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R. E. Tenney
5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite Book from my Favorite Publisher
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First things first. I love the Everyman's Library. The light yellow pages. The cloth cover. The sewn binding (no glue). The silk bookmark. The smell. Yes, the smell of the paper is the most important part. The first thing I always do with an Everyman edition when I've opened up the box is stick my nose deep into an open page and inhale. Then I chase my wife around, telling her she has to breath this in, this fantastic aroma; she looks at me like I'm crazy. No other publisher makes books that smell like the Everyman's Library. I could never read this book on a Kindle or on paperback. It just wouldn't feel true. Beautiful thoughts deserve a beautiful home.

When my college mentor held up a worn copy of The Brothers Karamozov by Dostoevsky, he promised me that this book would either transform me into a deeply religious individual or turn me into an atheist. I was intrigued. In my first reading I sensed something happening to me; I was drawn along a funny, strange fantasy which washed over me without my wholly understanding what was going on. The characters spoke in long speeches, almost Shakespearean.

Alyosha, the novice monk and hero, races from scene to scene, saving his brothers and his father from catastrophe, but he's never quite fast enough. What begins in the humorously absurd turns dark and even grotesque as the father is discovered beaten to death and the eldest son, Dimitri, is immediately suspected as the culprit. Both father and son were in pursuit of the same women, and their rivalry had escalated into violence before.

The most important part of the book for me, though, is the interchange between Ivan, the atheist intellectual and Alyosha, the faithful Christian. Ivan rebels against God and the senseless suffering in the world, especially the chapter entitled "The Grand Inquisitor," and Alyosha listens in horror, unable to defend his point of view. Jesus failed mankind, Ivan says, because the common man is incapable of faith. He needs to be compelled to salvation, but Jesus wouldn't compel us, so salvation is only available to a few. When the Grand Inquisitor, the man responsible for burning the thousands of heretics in Spain, confronts Jesus with his failings, Jesus only looks on him with silent compassion. It's a powerful scene, and I read the rest of the novel as Alyosha's attempt to grapple with the vision of his brother.

This is not the faint hearted; it's mammoth length, difficult language, and unfamiliar Slavic names demand careful attention. But the honest, diligent reader will feel the ground shift under him, and nothing will be the same. This book changed me. I am now on my fifth reading and have lost my innocent faith in God's love, and developed a deeper, more nuanced and profound relationship with the Divine.
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R.M
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2024
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The book was magnificent, the translation very easy to read and understandable. I'm happy to have read it.
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Thalia Langemyr
4.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing book with long intro
Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2023
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The translation was really well done! The book drags on in the beginning but is still thrilling throughout.
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George N. Schmidt
5.0 out of 5 stars Binging with Dostoevsky's 'Breaking Bad.' The Brothers Karamazov just the right challenging read for a long winter's months
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2015
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More than 50 years after I first read 'The Brothers Karamzov' while in high school (my existential phase, which became more than a phase), I re-read it as a part of our successful "read the classics" program with my wife in December 2014. And the novel, read through a second time (and possibly more closely than the first time) "holds up" amazingly -- although it stands in stark contrast to much of what is around nowadays in both form and content. After all, a novel where some paragraphs are three or four pages long is not about to get to the top of today's Best Seller lists.

But it's worth the time and effort Dostoevsky demands. His characters are complex and provide some insights into the worlds of pre-Revolutionary Russia that would be lost to history had Dostoevsky not taken on this massive "psychological" novel. The challenges faced by the three Karamatzov brothers (and their half brother) may seem unusual today. After all, nearly 150 years of modernity have passed since the patrimony in the family Karamazov caused the three brothers -- Alexi, Ivan, and Dimitri -- to face the various insults and injuries put upon them by their monstrous father. And as close readers realize, it is the fourth brother who has the most to be angry about, because he was the product of the rape of a girl from the town by the elder Karamazov.

A crime novel, a "psychological" novel, and series of meditations that helped give rise to 20th Century "existentialism" -- and in some ways a proto-feminist meditation, "The Brothers Karamazov" challenges the reader, in the most intelligent ways. The novel could be a 21st Century soap opera that could stretch for years (decades perhaps) just based on the panoply of characters presented to the reader. But if a novel is also to be judged based on the fulfillment of its "minor" characters, then here, too, Dostoevsky has triumphed. Despite the fact that none of the female characters is one of the leading characters, a half dozen of the women in the novel could easily be featured in a long-running HBO series. I can almost picture the reviews five years hence, when a bunch of "bingers" compare "The Brothers Karamazov" to "Breaking Bad," "The Sopranos," or the immortal "The Wire" (which I have compared to the great Russian novels). A 21st Century genre could perhaps revive this masterpiece of the 19th.

Dostoevsky still holds second place in my heart to the great novels of Tolstory (I taught "Anna Karenina" to Chicago high school students for several years, always with great satisfaction to both the students and myself; and I always wished I could teach "War and Peace" -- but there just wasn't time). And I don't know if we are up to the challenge of going through "Crime and Punishment," "The Idiot," and "The Possessed" as closely as we did "The Brothers Karamazov" as the cold weather began here in Chicago. But the effort was well worth it. (Even though I had to read a Carl Haisson novel in the middle of the long march through Dostoevsky to take a breather).

And you have to wonder how Dostoevsky would have written that sequel to the story of the Karamazovs, the one he was outlining after the publication of the story of Alexi, Dimitri, and Ivan. But he died, as to all great artists, and we don't have to worry, I hope, about someone taking up the next generation of the works of one of the world's great novelists the way some lesser novelists, from Ian Fleming to Margaret Mitchell, have been...
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Alan Puc
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Como otros libros de Everyman's Library la calidad de nota cuando uno tiene el ejemplar en sus manos; había visto otras ediciones del libro y me llamaba mucho la atención lo grandes que llegaban a ser. Sin embargo, en ésta, es claro que tiene muchísimo volumen en cuanto al texto, pero el tamaño de la letra (algo pequeña) y el tipo de papel bastante delgado, hacen posible una versión compacta de este libro, lo cual al menos para mí, la hace aún más valiosa. La cubierta textil del libro es de un rojo vino muy elegante.
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Como otros libros de Everyman's Library la calidad de nota cuando uno tiene el ejemplar en sus manos; había visto otras ediciones del libro y me llamaba mucho la atención lo grandes que llegaban a ser. Sin embargo, en ésta, es claro que tiene muchísimo volumen en cuanto al texto, pero el tamaño de la letra (algo pequeña) y el tipo de papel bastante delgado, hacen posible una versión compacta de este libro, lo cual al menos para mí, la hace aún más valiosa. La cubierta textil del libro es de un rojo vino muy elegante.
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Rob Chwyl
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
Reviewed in Canada on June 16, 2022
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I really enjoyed this long work of Dostoevsky's, and despite the length, it did not feel like a chore to finish. There was a heavy emphasis on Christian philosophy, with great insight into different characters' psychological perspectives. I particularly enjoyed (and reread multiple times) The Grand Inquisitor chapter and Ivan's conversation with the Devil.

If you have difficulty reading small text, avoid this book! It is beautiful in every other way: the cover, binding, paper, etc., but the text was the smallest of the Everyman's Library books I have read thus far.

Overall, an excellent book, my #1 fiction book to date!
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mike milliner
5.0 out of 5 stars Dostoevsky's greatest work.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 10, 2023
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Wonderful literature.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Don't even think twice!
Reviewed in India on August 5, 2023
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Fyodor Dostoevsky & Everyman's classics have become my obsession! Just two more of Dostoevsky's titles of this publisher and I'll have completed my collection! Dostoevsky's writing is filled with emotions and every now and then he lets us have a peak into the psychology & philosophy.
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Most profound and philosophical, and at the same time theological novel!
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