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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Fyodor Karamazov, a coarse, greedy landowner, has three sons: Dmitri, a passionate army officer who quarrels with his father over money and over the same…

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Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Read by: Sarah Bean, Jc Guan, Martin Geeson and 24 other readers
Translation: Constance Garnett
Length: 37:55:17
Parts: 96
Language: English
Source: LibriVox · Internet Archive

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Fyodor Karamazov, a coarse, greedy landowner, has three sons: Dmitri, a passionate army officer who quarrels with his father over money and over the same woman; Ivan, a cold intellectual who cannot accept a God who allows children to suffer; and Alyosha, the youngest, a novice under the saintly elder Zosima. When the father is murdered, Dmitri is arrested and tried, and the novel becomes both a detective story and a vast argument about faith, freedom and guilt, including Ivan's famous parable of the Grand Inquisitor.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky published his last novel in 1879 and 1880 and died a few months later; it is often called his greatest. This is Constance Garnett's translation, and twenty-seven LibriVox volunteers read it in about thirty-eight hours.

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