Brothers Karamazov: Translated From the Russian (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Brothers Karamazov: Translated From the Russian<br><br>One of the prisoners Grigoryev went mad as soon as he was untied and never regained his sanity.<br><br>The intense suffering of this experience left a lasting stamp on Dostoyevsky''s mind. Though his religious temper led him in the end to accept every suffering with resignation and to regard it as a blessing in his own case he constantly recurs to the subject in his writings. He describes the awful agony of the condemned man and insists on the cruelty of in?icting such torture. Then followed four years of penal servitude spent in the company of common criminals in Siberia where he began the Dead House and some years of service in a disciplinary battalion.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.