Fyodor Pavlovich's is a 55-year-old buffoon who takes no interest in his children, and lives at the expense of others. Fyodor three son's, the youthful Alyosha, the impetuous Dmitri, and the logical Ivan, are involved in several triangular love affairs. Throughout their encounters, the family is confronted with deep-seated philosophical issues, protestations of love, murder, and an exhilarating trial.
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, judgment, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia, with a plot which revolves around the subject of patricide. Since its publication, it has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.
This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.
