TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dostoyevsky,Fyodor
AU  - Garnett,Constance Black
TI  - The brothers Karamazov
T2  - Modern library giants
SN  - 0679601813 (hc) :
U1  - 891.73/3 20
PY  - 1996///, c1995
CY  - New York
PB  - Modern Library
KW  - Fathers and sons
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Brothers
KW  - Patricide
KW  - Russia
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 1533-1917
KW  - Didactic fiction
N1  - Translation of: Brat'ia Karamazovy; Date of publication from publisher's online site
N2  - "The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide & family rivalry that embodies the moral & spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s). It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication, in 1866, of Crime & Punishment. To Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov captured the quintessence of Russian character in all its exaltation, compassion, & profligacy. Significantly, the book was on Tolstoy's bedside table when he died. Readers in every language have since accepted Dostoevsky's own evaluation of this work & have gone further by proclaiming it one of the few great novels of all ages & countries. "'he Brothers Karamazov stands as the culmination of Dostoevsky's art: his last, longest, richest, & most capacious book,' said The Washington Post Book World. 'Nothing is outside Dostoevsky's province," observed Virginia Woolf. "Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading.'" from inside flap
ER  -