The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Bruce Peery

Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov (1880) 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, 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, and radicalism, sanity and madness, love and hatred, right and wrong are no longer mutually exclusive.

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Sweeping story

This story was a wonderfully rich tapestry with amazing twists and turns. Russian literature is not for the impatient or the faint of heart. Well worth the investment of time.

this is actually the version from LibriVox, narrated by Bruce Pirie

This version of the Brothers Karamazov, narrated by Bruce Perry, is actually the version from LibriVox, narrated by Bruce Pirie