false 74567989 2365317 7135 0553212168 9780553212167 30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165606877m/7135.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165606877s/7135.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7135.The_Brothers_Karamazov 4.29 198 The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist, Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosha, the mystic; and twisted, cunning Smerdyakov, the bastard child. Frequently lurid, nightmarish, always brilliant, the novel plunges the reader into a sordid love triangle, a pathological obsession, and a gripping courtroom drama. But throughout the whole, Dostoevsky searhes for the truth--about man, about life, about the existence of God. A terrifying answer to man's eternal questions, this monumental work remains the crowning achievement of perhaps the finest novelist of all time.]]> 3356 4.14 82390 6779 805350 4.06 6680 401 4787 4.32 230 37 1880 5 0 false Wed Oct 14 18:29:31 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 18:29:31 -0700 2009