Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov, a passionate philosophical novel completed only a few months before his death, is Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s most expansive, life-embracing work. Described as a theological drama , regarding faith, doubt, and reason, it is set in a modernizing 19th century Russia.

The plot centers on a murder and is infused with moral issues and human nature at its most loathsome and cruel, in par...