Penguin Books The Brothers Karamazov

'the most magnificent novel ever written' sigmund freud the murder of brutal landowner fyodor karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide

Ivan, the intellectual, driven to breakdown

The spiritual alyosha, who tries to heal the rifts in the family

And the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother, smerdyakov. Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur, and everyone's faith in humanity is tested. Translated with an introduction and notes by david mcduff