The Brothers Karamazov (Signet Classics)

From beginning to end this book is deep but nicely written and detailed in story. It keeps your brain off the reality around you and brings you into a different perspective and world.

The quality of the book is good and this is one of the best translations of the story.Be aware that this is the size of a textbook, not a standard paperback. It is not super thick because of this, but it is the height and length of a college textbook.

The Brothers Karamazov is classic story. While Fyodor Dostoevsky is not easy to read, this book is worth the effort. I was looking for a readable used copy at a reasonable price and this copy was exactly that.

The Borthers Karamazov is a dense philosophical novel, of the sort only Dostoyevsky is capable of writing. It is often acclaimed to be his best work.The tale is set in 1800s Russia, consisting of: three brothers, their amoral father, and a tragic murder. Each brother represents a worldview. Dmitri, the eldest, is the hedonistic sensualist, who while he may claim to believe in God, lives subject to his impulsive passions. Middle child Ivan is the atheist intellectual who sports the “everything is permissible” moral ideology Dostoyevsky is most critical of, though Ivan thankfully does not live by the philosophy he promotes. Only the sickly Smerdyakov has the courage to fully enact the conclusions of Ivan’s worldview. Alyosha, the youngest, represents the Christian worldview as he follows in the vein of his great Elder Father Zossima, who I can only gather sports much of Dostoyevsky’s personal beliefs: sacrificial living, the brotherhood of humanity, the forgiveness and the suffering modeled by Jesus.So by clothing worldviews in human flesh, The Brothers Karamazov is truly a unique way to study beliefs and the implications of those beliefs. Dostoyevsky cleverly disguises his thinking as a novel, which makes him free to delve into the natural consequences of each worldview, show what happens when they clash with each other, and give a clue as to which holds the keys to deliverance in the future. He also displays an incredible cross-section of the complexity of the human mind, as well as the contradictory natures that are in the best and worst of us.And while Brothers Karamazov is a profound work, and rightly recognized as such, I admit that I struggled to fully understand and appreciate the weight of Dostoyevsky’s writing. I could track with the plot, and could identify the characters, I could even discern some of the undertones—but upon finishing the book I could only feel that I left sufficient meat on the bone. Without giving too many more spoilers, I could not understand why Dostoyevsky ended it the way that he did, or why the verdict of the trial was the way that it was, or why certain things befell certain characters. There is much in this book that I KNEW had a deeper meaning to, but for whatever reason went over my head.Still, I will not lower the rating of this book due to my own limitations. Dostoyevsky is an incredible thinker, and while I personally found Crime and Punishment to be more enjoyable and discernible—Brothers Karamazov is still worthy of the praise it garners.

Good price, attractive design. What’s not to like?

Received this classic quickly for a great price. Now it may take a year to read it.

This is probably the most engrossing book I've ever read. It is long, so my suggestion is to chunk out your reading to 2-3 chapters each night in order to really absorb the characters, settings, political, philosophical and religious depth of the storyline. In the end, you will ask yourself, which character are YOU? Alyosha, Dmitri, Ivan, Smerdyakov, Grushenka- maybe Stinking Lizaveta?

I have a love hate relationship with this book. The author's writing is wonderful. It's a classic. He depicts the characters and their thoughts and situations in great detail. And perhaps I am just too impatient but there is such a large volume of detail around each small development that the book can become arduous read. I enjoyed Dostoevsky's use of analogy to paint the then current state of Russia into the form of some of the characters. He is a great writer but could have used some editing - but then how do you edit such a brilliant writer?

This is not a normal paperback, it is a huge, unmanageable phone book, not easy to carry in a backpack , has extremely small print and is an overall flimsy book. A better description would help people realize this is not a usable book. An interesting decoration but not meant for reading. I purchase a proper paperback as soon as I opened this package. Oh well, live and learn!

A qualidade do material em que o livro foi construído não é das melhores, porém se vc ser cuidadoso não terá problemas. Em relação a história do livro, em minha opinião um dos melhores romances que já li, Fyodor Dostoevsky é excepcional.

I'm in love with this book. Dostojevski is one of my favourite authors, so I really needed this book in my collection. Even if the price of this book is really low the quality of it is really good. Wordsworth Classics never disappoints me. I totally recommend to buy it.

Very pleased with this book! Although I can't read it without my glasses, print is really small- content is all that matters! Good to return and read classic books , so glad these aren't expensive. Definitely recommend

'द सुप्रीम समिट ऑफ आल लिटरेचर'यह बात आइंस्टाइन ने फ्योदोर दॉस्तोएव्स्की के उपन्यास 'द करामज़ोव ब्रदर्स' के बारे में कही थी। यह कृति दॉस्तोएव्स्की की magnum opus कही जाती है।मैंने आज इसको पढ़ कर ख़त्म किया। लगभग तीन सप्ताह तक इसको पढ़ता रहा क्योंकि यह बड़ी पुस्तक है... 'वॉर एंड पीस' के बाद सबसे वृहद पुस्तक है, 96 अध्याय और चार लाख शब्दों की.बड़े का दूसरा अर्थ ज़्यादा महत्त्वपूर्ण है कि यह कितने गम्भीर अर्थों में यह प्रभावित करती है। आध्यात्मिकता, ईश्वर प्रेम और सांसारिक झमेले इन सबका ऐसा रसायन जिसको साधना सबके बूते की बात नहीं है।लगभग 100 पात्रों की यह रचना हर पात्र से आपका परिचय कराती है, बिल्कुल डिंस्टिंक्टनेस से। वे याद रह जाते हैं। उनके चेहरे के भाव से लेकर उनके अन्दर चल रही उठा-पटक सब आप देख पाते हैं। उनकी सामाजिक-व्यक्तिगत स्थिति और उनके चरित्र का सम्बन्ध एकदम साफ खुल जाता है आपके सामने।कहानी पर जाना न तो सम्भव है न ठीक है लेकिन जिसको भी 900 पेज़ में फैली एक कहानी पढ़ने का धीरज हो, उसे पढ़ना चाहिए।मुझे पढ़ते समय एक साथ यह महसूस होता रहा कि कब ख़त्म होगी... काश ख़त्म न हो।बच्चों से डील करने का क्या तरीक़ा हो, झूठ को क्यों न अपना चरित्र बनाएं, इस पर इससे बेहतर अन्तर्दृष्टियाँ शायद ही कहीं मिलें।पुस्तक के चार छोटे-बड़े उद्धरण नीचे हैं जो मुझे बहुत अच्छे लगे। आपको तय करना है कि यह जिन प्रसंगों में आये होंगे वे कितने अच्छे होंगे या पुस्तक में किस हद तक मथकर निकले हैं।1)Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.2) Every day and every hour, every minute, walk round yourself and watch yourself, and see that your image is a seemly one. You pass by a little child, you pass by, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenceless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you didn't foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love.3) Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete beastiality, and it all comes form lying continually to others and himself. A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. it sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn't it? And surely he knows that no one has offended him, and that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked up on a word and made a mountain out of a pea--he knows all of that, and still he is the first to take offense, he likes feeling offended, it gives him great pleasure, and thus he reaches the point of real hostility...4) You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. If a man carries many such memories with him into life, he is safe to the end of his days, and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometime be the means of saving us.