Bantam Classics: The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)

from Clara53

I doubt I can shed any new light on the masterpiece such as this book, so - just a few points that impressed me.... First: the fact is, I don't know of any author who can depict human agony to such...

from rdm666

This is the greatest book I have ever read, and I've read it about 3 times. Dostoyevsky is the only writer I've seen who can bind very original [as far as I know] philosophical statements to charac...

from LisaMaria_C

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,...

from Soultalk

I am a huge Russian literature fan. In my opinion Nabokov, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Pasternak, Tolstoy, and even Solzenitzyn need to bow before the great meloncholic Dostoevsky. This is certainly in my t...

from littlegeek

Reread in 2010. Not as good as Crime & Punishment to my mind. Alyosha is too perfect. Yet he does practically nothing to help Dmitri when he could have, like, maybe gone to Smerdyakov to try to get...