Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. This novel has been called Dostoevsky's greatest work and has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature. This passionate philosophical novel is set in 19th-centry Russia and enters deeply into questions of God, free will, and morality. "The Brothers Karamazov" is the last novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Heavy paper loss and staining to rear pastedown and endpaper.
Water damage to edges of textblock which bleed into the text itself. Two small chips on front board near the edge. Gilt lettering on spine still bright and rather legible. Heavy wear and staining to the boards, most noticeably on the front board. This book measures approximately 7.25" x 4.75", with 838 numbered pages. The first English edition was published in 1912. First UK edition, seventh printing from 1919. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.First UK Edition, Seventh Printing. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. This new translation does full justice to Doestoevsky's genius, particularly in the use of the spoken word, which ranges over every mode of human expression.
Rebecca West considered it "the allegory for the world's maturity", but with children to the fore. The novel is also richly comic: the Russian Orthodox Church, the legal system, and even the authors most cherished causes and beliefs are presented with a note of irreverence, so that orthodoxy, and radicalism, sanity and madness, love and hatred, right and wrong are no longer mutually exclusive.
Bound up with this intense family drama is Dostoevsky's exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, the question of human freedom, the collective nature of guilt, the disatrous consequences of rationalism. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered his sons - the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha - are all at some level involved. Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate.
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