The Brothers Karamazov: Introduction by Malcolm Jones

Author:   Fyodor Dostoevsky ,  Richard Pevear ,  Larissa Volokhonsky ,  Malcolm Jones
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
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9780679410034


Pages:   840
Publication Date:   28 April 1992
Format:   Hardback
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The Brothers Karamazov: Introduction by Malcolm Jones


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"Dostoevsky’s greatest novel is a story of murder told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s final novel, published just before his death in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between a larger-than-life father and his three very different sons. The author's towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues—brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality—that made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-century Russia. This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky—the definitive version in English—magnificently captures the rich and subtle energies of Dostoevsky’s masterpiece."" Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman’s Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times."

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Author:   Fyodor Dostoevsky ,  Richard Pevear ,  Larissa Volokhonsky ,  Malcolm Jones
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
Imprint:   Everyman's Library USA
Dimensions:   Width: 13.40cm , Height: 4.50cm , Length: 21.10cm
Weight:   0.856kg
ISBN:  

9780679410034


ISBN 10:   0679410031
Pages:   840
Publication Date:   28 April 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Language:   English

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[Dostoevsky is] at once the most literary and compulsively readable of novelists we continue to regard as great . . . The Brothers Karamazov stands as the culmination of his art- his last, longest, richest, and most capacious book. [This] scrupulous rendition can only be welcomed. It returns us to a work we thought we knew, subtly altered and so made new again. - Washington Post Book World <br> A miracle . . . Every page of the new Karamazov is a permanent standard, and an inspiration. - The Times (London) <br> One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky' s original. - New York Times Book Review <br> Absolutely faithful . . . Fulfills in remarkable measure most of the criteria for an ideal translation . . . The stylistic accuracy and versatility of registers used . . . bring out the richness and depth of the original in a way similar to a faithful and sensitive restoration of a painting. - The Independent <br> It may well be that Dostoevsky' s [world], with all its resourceful energies of life and language, is only now- and through the medium of [this] new translation- beginning to come home to the English-speaking reader. - New York Review of Books <br> Heartily recommended to any reader who wishes to come as close to Dostoevsky' s Russian as it is possible. - Joseph Frank, Princeton University <br>With an Introduction by Malcolm V. Jones


[Dostoevsky is] at once the most literary and compulsively readable of novelists we continue to regard as great . . . The Brothers Karamazov stands as the culmination of his art-his last, longest, richest, and most capacious book. [This] scrupulous rendition can only be welcomed. It returns us to a work we thought we knew, subtly altered and so made new again. - Washington Post Book World <br> A miracle . . . Every page of the new Karamazov is a permanent standard, and an inspiration. - The Times (London) <br> One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky's original. - New York Times Book Review <br> Absolutely faithful . . . Fulfills in remarkable measure most of the criteria for an ideal translation . . . The stylistic accuracy and versatility of registers used . . . bring out the richness and depth of the original in a way similar to a faithful and sensitive restoration of a painting. - The Independent <br> It may well be that Dostoevsky's [world], with all


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Fyodor Dostoevsky's life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821, and when he died in 1881, he left a legacy of masterworks that influenced the great thinkers and writers of the Western world and immortalized him as a giant among writers of world literature.

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