Brothers Karamazov

In 1880 Dostoevsky completed <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling profound complex it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry the sensualist Ivan the intellectual; Alyosha the mystic; and twisted cunning Smerdyakov the bastard child. Frequently lurid nightmarish always brilliant the novel plunges the reader into a sordid love triangle a pathological obsession and a gripping courtroom drama. But throughout the whole Dostoevsky searhes for the truth--about man about life about the existence of God. A terrifying answer to man's eternal questions this monumental work remains the crowning achievement of perhaps the finest novelist of all time.