The Brothers Karamazov (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Fyodor Dostoevski
- First Published: 1912
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Setting: Russia
- Principal Characters: Fyodor Karamazov, Dmitri, Ivan, Alexey, Grushenka, Smerdyakov, Zossima, Katerina
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: Parents and children, Murder or homicide, Trials, Brothers, Fathers, Fratricide, parricide, or filicide, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Russia or Russian people, Hedonism, Orthodox Eastern Church
- Locales: Russia
The Story:
In the middle of the nineteenth century in Skotoprigonyevski, a town in the Russian provinces, Fyodor Karamazov fathered three sons, the eldest, Dmitri, by his first wife, and the other two, Ivan and Alexey, by his second. Fyodor, a good businessman but a scoundrel by nature, abandoned the children after their mothers died. A family servant, Grigory, saw that they were placed in the care of relatives.
Dmitri grew up believing he would receive a legacy from his mother’s estate. He served in the army, where he developed wild ways. Becoming a wastrel, he went...
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