The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (Translator),NOOK Book (eBook),Series: Halcyon Classics 1, English-language edition,Pub by Halcyon Press Ltd.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (Translator),NOOK Book (eBook),Series: Halcyon Classics 1, English-language edition,Pub by Halcyon Press Ltd.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
2940012146410 (0012146412)
Publish date: January 25th 2011
Publisher: Halcyon Press Ltd.
Edition language: English
It's one of those where we get sold the whole.. 'Russia was a peasant backwater that had stagnated under the Tsars before Stalin launched the brutal equivalent of an industrial revolution in the five year plans that pulled the Soviet Union into modernity at huge cost to lives.' And yet you look a...
The most difficult thing about reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky is pronouncing his name I think. The first Dostoyevsky book I read was [b:Crime and Punishment|7144|Crime and Punishment|Fyodor Dostoyevsky|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1382846449s/7144.jpg|3393917], I liked it well enough even though it was...
I've delayed this review because I was (and I am) strongly convinced that adding my opinion to the list of million of opinions in the world about the book was..unnecessary. Particularly because giving to The Brothers Karamazov 4 stars could be judged as a crime! But, to appease the potentially angry...
On the surface this novel could be read as a psychological thriller, family drama, and murder mystery--with enough of a twist to satisfy an Agatha Christie fan. It's rather beside the point though, and the reveal is hardly the climax of the book. This is after all one of the most celebrated works of...
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