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The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
Narrated by: David Rintoul
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Summary

Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons - the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha - are all at some level involved.

Bound up with this intense family drama is Dostoevsky's exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, the question of human freedom, the collective nature of guilt, and the disastrous consequences of rationalism. The novel is also richly comic: the Russian Orthodox Church, the legal system, and even the author's most cherished causes and beliefs are presented with a note of irreverence, so that orthodoxy, radicalism, sanity and madness, love and hatred, right and wrong are no longer mutually exclusive.

Translated by the acclaimed Russian-English translator, Constance Garnett.
Public Domain (P)2023 SNR Audio
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"The allegory for the world's maturity", Rebecca West

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I've always wanted to read this book. What a great story of passion with an outstanding reading of it by David Rintoul.

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