<b>Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith, meaning and morality, <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> is translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff in Penguin Classics.</b> <p> When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother Smerdyakov. As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true identity of the murderer, Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur and everyone's faith in humanity is tested. </p><p> This powerful translation of <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> features and introduction highlighting Dostoyevsky's recurrent themes of guilt and salvation, with a new chronology and further reading. </p><p> <b>"There is no writer who better demonstrates the contradictions and fluctuations of the creative mind than Dostoyevsky, and nowhere more astonishingly than in <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i>."--Joyce Carol Oates</b> </p><p><b>"Dostoyevsky was the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn: he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life."--Friedrich Nietzsche</b> </p><p><b>"The most magnificent novel ever written."--Sigmund Freud</b></p>