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.
"[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
"A miracle . . . Every page of the new Karamazov is a permanent
standard, and an inspiration." -The Times (London)
"One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky's original."
-New York Times Book Review
"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
"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
"Heartily recommended to any reader who wishes to come as close to
Dostoevsky's Russian as it is possible." -Joseph Frank, Princeton
University
With an Introduction by Malcolm V. Jones
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