- Hardcover: 840 pages
- Publisher: Everyman's Library (1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0679410031
- ISBN-13: 978-0679410034
- Product Dimensions: 13.6 x 4.4 x 21.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,923,489 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Dostoevsky’s towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues–brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality–that made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-century Russia. The Brothers Karamazov, his last and greatest novel, published just before his death in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between the outsized Fyodor Karamazov and his three very different sons. It is above all the story of a murder, told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature.
This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky–the definitive version in English–magnificently captures the rich and subtle energies of Dostoevsky’s masterpiece.
Dostoevsky’s towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues–brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality–that made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-century Russia. The Brothers Karamazov, his last and greatest novel, published just before his death in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between the outsized Fyodor Karamazov and his three very different sons. It is above all the story of a murder, told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature.
This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky–the definitive version in English–magnificently captures the rich and subtle energies of Dostoevsky’s masterpiece.
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Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of a landowner from our district, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, well known in his own day (and still remembered among us) because of this dark and tragic death, which happened exactly thirteen years ago and which I shall speak of in its proper place. Read the first page
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Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of a landowner from our district, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, well known in his own day (and still remembered among us) because of this dark and tragic death, which happened exactly thirteen years ago and which I shall speak of in its proper place. Read the first page
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Brilliant translation of a brilliant book!,
By Tom Feltham (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brothers Karamazov, the (Paperback)
I first read The Brothers Karamazov when I was about 14, and ever since it has remained one of my favourites. I got the Pevear version from my local library, read and loved it, and then got it out again to read a year later. A few years later I bought a different translation, but found it incredibly dull by comparison. I've always gone for the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation when available, with no regrets.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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A classic still relevant today,
By Hannah "Hannah" (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Brothers Karamazov (Everyman's Library classics) (Hardcover)
I kept this book on my shelf for 3 years before reading it, but once I did, I finished it in less then a week. Dostoyevsky has incredible insights on socialism, philosophy, religion and society, most that are still relevant today. It is easy to see how Camus and Sartre were influenced by it, and there were passages also that reminded me of Huxley's Brave New World, especially about the englightened few controlling the masses.
Above all else however, this is an enjoyable whodunnit. An excellent crime novel centring round the three Karamazov brothers; Dmitri, Ivan and Alyosha and their wayward father, Fyodor. All the human emotions are here - love, hatred, jealousy, bitterness, and although Tolstoy may be the master of relationships, no-one can draw out the tension like Dostoevsky. I was intimidated by the sheer size and reputatio of this, but it is one of the best books I have ever read, and I would wholeheartedly recommend it.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Magnificent,
By Christopher Eastwood "IQHQ" (Belfast, Northern Ireland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Brothers Karamazov (Everyman's Library classics) (Hardcover)
Tears well up in my eyes when I reflect upon this, the greatest novel of the nineteenth century. I will not indulge myself in providing a review, which to my mind would be impossible. Just a note: to anyone lucky enough to have come onto this page, considering a purchase. You will not regret it, my friend. It will make you a more fully human being.
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