The Brothers Karamazov: Introduction by Malcolm Jones - Hardcover

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author), Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)

Dostoevsky's greatest novel is a story of murder told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature.

Fyodor Dostoevsky's final novel, published just before his death in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between a larger-than-life father and his three very different sons. The author's towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues--brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality--that made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-century Russia.

This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky--the definitive version in English--magnificently captures the rich and subtle energies of Dostoevsky's masterpiece.

With an introduction by Malcolm Jones.

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman's Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

Front Jacket

Introduction by Malcolm Jones; Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Author Biography

Fyodor Dostoevsky's life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821, and when he died in 1881, he left a legacy of masterworks that influenced the great thinkers and writers of the Western world and immortalized him as a giant among writers of world literature.