{"product_id":"the-brothers-karamazov-a-novel-in-four-parts-and-an-epilogue-9780241655566","title":"The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue","description":"\u003cb\u003eFyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith, meaning and morality, \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e is translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff in Penguin Classics.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother Smerdyakov. As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true identity of the murderer, Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur and everyone's faith in humanity is tested. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This powerful translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e features and introduction highlighting Dostoyevsky's recurrent themes of guilt and salvation, with a new chronology and further reading. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"There is no writer who better demonstrates the contradictions and fluctuations of the creative mind than Dostoyevsky, and nowhere more astonishingly than in \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e.\"--Joyce Carol Oates\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Dostoyevsky was the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn: he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life.\"--Friedrich Nietzsche\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The most magnificent novel ever written.\"--Sigmund Freud\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fyodor Dostoyevsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Clothbound Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 1056\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780241655566","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43195519139977,"sku":"9780241655566","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_5ac1cdaf-1808-4643-af7b-bae71952b8f0.jpg?v=1733860695","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-brothers-karamazov-a-novel-in-four-parts-and-an-epilogue-9780241655566","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}