Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Mihailoviç Dostoyevski

The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky s crowning achievement is a tale of patricide and family rivalry that embodies the moral and spiritual dissolution of an entire society Russia in the 1870s It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication in 1866 of Crime and Punishment To Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov captured the quintessence of Russian character in all its exaltation compassion and profligacy Significantly the book was on Tolstoy s bedside table when he died Readers in every language have since accepted Dostoevsky s own evaluation of this work and have gone further by proclaiming it one of the few great novels of all ages and countries