The Brothers Karamazov
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This passionate novel of ethics and morality, religion and philosophy was Dostoevskyâs final and best work.
After spending four years in a Siberian penal settlement, during which time he underwent a religious conversion, Dostoevsky developed a keen ability for deep character analysis. In The Brothers Karamazov, he explores human nature at its most loathsome and cruel but never flinches at what he finds.
The Brothers Karamazov tells the stirring tale of four brothers: the pleasure-seeking, impatient Dmitri; the brilliant and morose Ivan; the gentle, loving, and honest Alyosha; and the illegitimate Smerdyakov: shy, silent, and cruel. The four unite in the murder of one of literatureâs most despicable charactersâtheir father. While on the surface a story about patricide, this novel is, on a deeper level, a spiritual tale of the struggle between faith, doubt, reason, and free will.
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821â1881) was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the darkest recesses of the human heart had a profound and universal influence on the twentieth-century novel. He is known for his masterpiece, Crime and Punishment, as well as other works, including The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov.
Constance Garnett (1862â1946) translated the works of numerous Russian authors, including Tolstoy, Gogol, Pushkin, and Turgenev.
David Case (a.k.a. Frederick Davidson) (1932â2005) was born in London and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He performed in BBC radio plays before coming to America in 1976. The narrator of more than eight hundred audiobooks, he garnered numerous Earphones Awards and a Grammy nomination for his readings. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine in 1997.
