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The Brothers Karamazov Kindle Edition

by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 out of 5 stars 3,052 ratings
The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered the culmination of his life's work. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880. Dostoevsky intended it to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great Sinner, but he died less than four months after its publication.

The book portrays a parricide in which each of the murdered man's sons share a varying degree of complicity. On a deeper level, it is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, reason, free will and modern Russia. Dostoevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which is also the main setting of the novel.
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  1. ISBN-13
    978-2291031574
  2. Publisher
    Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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  4. Publication date
    24 May 2018
  5. Language
    English
  6. File size
    1.9 MB
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About the Author

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk(1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came The House of the Dead (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Vremya (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed Notes from Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The major novels of his late period are The Idiot (1868), Demons(1871-2) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). He died in 1881.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07DCS1CBH
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 24 May 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.9 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 582 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-2291031574
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 12 years and up
  • Customer reviews:
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Customers find the book's story excellent and consider it one of the greatest novels ever written, with one customer describing it as a murder mystery on a grand scale. The book's readability receives mixed reactions - while some find it good, others say it's unreadable with gibberish English. The pacing also gets mixed reviews, with several customers finding it too depressing.

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16 customers mention ‘Readability’16 positive0 negative

Customers find the book readable and satisfactory, with one noting that it improves after the first 40%.

"...Is a deserved classic that is well worth a read no doubt" Read more

"...It got better after the first 40%. I read it on kindle and was constantly checking what percentage I was up to..." Read more

"Takes a bit of reading but it is typical Dostoyevsky. Well worth while sticking with and you will be rewarded with a great book. Good value too." Read more

"...But, it's not a bad book. It has all that amazes you in his writing, the problem maybe is it has more than of it that it should...." Read more

12 customers mention ‘Story quality’12 positive0 negative

Customers praise the story of this novel, describing it as one of the greatest ever written, with one customer noting its complex "whodunnit" structure.

"Great story but not easy to read. The characters all have several names...." Read more

"...It combines character study and a whodunnit mystery in the process...." Read more

"...Essentially, it is a complex "whodunnit", but it is so much more. Like many people, I had started the book many years ago but failed to finish it...." Read more

"The story is immense, simple and at times breathtaking. A page turner...." Read more

28 customers mention ‘Readableness’12 positive16 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the book's readability, with some finding it unreadable and describing the English as gibberish, while others appreciate its writing style.

"Great story but not easy to read. The characters all have several names...." Read more

"...Writing on a grand scale, but I am fairly sure that 9 out of 10 who start the book will not finish it since it was written at a time when taking..." Read more

"...The story is long and complicated and there are sections on religion and spirituality which a modern author would make much shorter...." Read more

"...But, it's not a bad book. It has all that amazes you in his writing, the problem maybe is it has more than of it that it should...." Read more

13 customers mention ‘Pacing’9 positive4 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the pacing of the book, with some finding it too depressing and a complete disappointment.

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"...It is sympathetic to a Russian orthodox view of life, but reading the New Testament itself would give a far better understanding of Christianity...." Read more

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  • Chris
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great story but not easy to read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 July 2015
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    Great story but not easy to read. The characters all have several names. In the Russian language people are now by their formal name plus several diminutives and this leads to a problem of working out who's who. I have started this book several times but never finished it before. The Kindle "look up" facility has made the book more readable.
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  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Very well worth reading. written in a relaxed, easy style.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 November 2013
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    I really liked the characters and the insight it gives of what it was like to live in Russia in that era (about the 1870s). The story is long and complicated and there are sections on religion and spirituality which a modern author would make much shorter. This is the second Dostoevsky I have read and I am beginning to think about learning a bit of Russian.
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  • Will
    5.0 out of 5 stars classic
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 February 2023
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    Lots to think about and digest regarding human nature. Is a deserved classic that is well worth a read no doubt
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  • Nefyn
    5.0 out of 5 stars An enthralling novel
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 February 2019
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    This novel gives a fascinating insight into Russian life and thought in the 19th century. It combines character study and a whodunnit mystery in the process. It is sympathetic to a Russian orthodox view of life, but reading the New Testament itself would give a far better understanding of Christianity. Nevertheless the implications of atheism are spelled out: “If there is no God, everything is permitted”.
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  • suzanne
    3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 May 2019
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    Completed on 22nd May 2019 taking over a month to read. I remember being very impressed by Crime and Punishment. Perhaps my expectations were too high or maybe I didn’t choose the best translation; I did not find it an easy or fulfilling read. I am glad I have completed it and regard it as a show off book like Tristan Shandy , 100 Years of Solitude or Ulysses. It got better after the first 40%. I read it on kindle and was constantly checking what percentage I was up to
    It is too long and I didn’t find the characters sympathetic or easy to relate to. I felt that Dmitri deserved to be convicted even though he hadn’t killed his father as he seemed a very violent man who could throw a pestle at the kind old servant Grigory who had brought him up. The women are mostly mad or hysterical. I felt much more could have been written about Smerdyakov’s character and his motivation for the murder.
    But it is a book ahead of it’s time the origin of Crime fiction with its courtroom dramas and denouements (Smerdyakov’s detailed confession). There is also humour at times - Dmitri’s visit to the drunken Lyagavy and Trifon Borissovitch pulling up floor boards in his Inn to look for the missing money. Descriptions of madness were very real especially of Captain Snegiryov at the funeral.
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  • Mr. G. G. Davies
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gerat book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 April 2013
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    Takes a bit of reading but it is typical Dostoyevsky. Well worth while sticking with and you will be rewarded with a great book. Good value too.
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  • millhall
    4.0 out of 5 stars Murder mystery on a grand scale.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 September 2018
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    This book is almost impossible to categorize. Essentially, it is a complex "whodunnit", but it is so much more. Like many people, I had started the book many years ago but failed to finish it. I know why. The first one third is slow, repetitive and dominated by philosophy and religious dogma. I became very impressed with the author's knowledge of the Christian bible, which is quoted extensively and the references are often subtle. The central characters are three Russian brothers - Dmitri, Ivan and Alyosha. They are very different but love one another despite their hedonistic, selfish and greedy father. Much of the book consists of a series of frantic and breathless conversations between the brothers, the father, the monks in a local monastery and the women whose love ensnares the brothers and the father. This style of writing made me think of a play with the scenes moving on from act to act. Rather like Thomas Hardy, the author introduces a parallel theme based on the "peasants" and their children. This aspect is handled tenderly and with more than a little reflection on the true meaning of life. The murder is dealt with in an exciting and dramatic manner, though I found the eventual trial to be overly long and repetitive. The final moments of the book deal with the central need for forgiveness if one wishes peace of mind. Writing on a grand scale, but I am fairly sure that 9 out of 10 who start the book will not finish it since it was written at a time when taking several weeks to read a book would be a blessing, not a chore!
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  • Blair Ritchie
    5.0 out of 5 stars A book within a book.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 November 2013
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    The story is immense, simple and at times breathtaking. A page turner. Woven into the story are debates on the great moral and theological issues of then and amazingly now. You could almost miss these bits out and still follow the story but then you fail to try and grasp what makes The Brothers.
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  • Hyrum
    5.0 out of 5 stars An orthodox suggestion
    Reviewed in Australia on 7 December 2024
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    Was recommended this by a friend and what a wonderful suggestion. Will definitely read more by the author. Had not read Dostoevsky before and so grateful to the guy who suggested this. Very supple writing and storytelling.
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  • Ferran Gaya
    5.0 out of 5 stars Una gran obra de arte
    Reviewed in Spain on 26 December 2021
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    La novela es larga y hay que prestar mucha atención para seguir la trama, pero es una obra de arte por la profunda descripción psicológica de sus personajes principales. Dostoyevsky se revela como un gran conocedor de las profundidades de la humanidad, de sus miserias y grandezas. De esas novelas aprendieron luego los psicólogos, que como Freud, elaboraron teorías que nada tienen que ver con la profundidad de 'Los hermanos Kamarazov'.
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  • Pseudo D
    5.0 out of 5 stars finally
    Reviewed in the United States on 13 November 2018
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    I recently accomplished a big one by reading this book "cover to cover," or its equivalent on
    the screen. As some other reviewers have noted, it is one of the most difficult things you
    will ever read but also one of the most beautiful and inspiring. In 1998 in my first semester
    of college, I was taking Russian Government and Politics. I had heard of Crime and Punishment,
    but the prof said the greatest one by Dostoyevsky is The Brothers Karamazov. Then toward
    the end of my seminary career in Problem of Evil we studied The Grand Inquisitor poem
    or chapter which was one of the highlights of the course along with Job. Over the years
    in my nonfiction reading Ivan and Alyosha have been constant conversation partners on
    a number of themes. But as I said, I had never read the whole book. I don't know much
    about the different translations that reviewers have mentioned. I did find it helpful to
    get a list of the characters. In Russian they often address the person by the first and
    middle name, and the brothers have the same middle name so it looks like it's their
    last name. But I echo the advice of others to just plow through it. Some find the
    digressions long, and of course it is long but it towers as one of the most powerful
    novels in the history of the world, so just trust that it's worth it to keep going. But
    that doesn't mean to rush, because there are moments where it's worthwhile to
    pause and meditate on what is being said and done in the story.
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  • Giuliano Gessi
    5.0 out of 5 stars Dostoevskij e il mistero dell'uomo
    Reviewed in Italy on 17 June 2017
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    Libro stupefacente e attualissimo: i drammi, i desideri, le cadute e le contraddizioni dei personaggi sono quelle stesse che caratterizzano l'uomo di ogni epoca. Scritto in modo magistrale ed avvincente....non esiste best seller che possa stare a questo livello
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  • LUIZ DE BRITO
    5.0 out of 5 stars Bom livro
    Reviewed in Brazil on 22 June 2023
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    Ótimo livro, para se ler minuciosamente.
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