The Brothers Karamazov

First issued in 1879-80, this novel follows the Karamazov household in a small Russian district: the drunken landowner Fyodor, the soldier Dmitri, the intellectual Ivan, the novice Alyosha, and the unacknowledged Smerdyakov. A disputed inheritance and two women, Katerina and Grushenka, divide the brothers while a murder charge gathers around the eldest. Monastery teaching, a courtroom, and tavern talk carry the argument about freedom, guilt, and whether a world without God can be just. The work is a philosophical family novel, not a saint's life and not a tract.

Quarter bound in red buckram with gilt spine title and monochrome pictorial paper boards. Flecked pale grey endleaves. Dark green slipcase.