This extraordinary novel, Dostoyevsky's last and greatest work, tells the dramatic story of four brothers—Dmitri, pleasure-seeking, impatient, unruly. Ivan isbrilliant and morose. Alyosha is gentle, loving, honest. And the illegitimate Smerdyakov is sly, silent, cruel. Driven by intense passion, they become involved in the brutal murder of their own father, one of the most loathsome characters in all literature. Featuring the famous chapter, "The Grand Inquisitor," Dostoyevsky's final masterpiece is at once a complex character study, a riveting murder mystery, and a fascinating examination of man's morality and the question of God's existence.

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• 1958
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