The Brothers Karamazov – Dostoevsky (1943)

S$330.00

The Brothers Karamazov – Dostoevsky (1943)

S$330.00

A scarce fine binding of Dostoevsky’s masterpiece, with a custom slipcase. Title: The Brothers Karamazov Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (trans.), William Sharp (illus) Publisher: The Modern Library, 1943. Condition: Full leather, fine binding, with custom slipcase. A new binding of the Modern Library edition, illustrated, and printed on thin paper. In near fine condition, with blue top edge and very slight soiling and tanning to edges. 941pp., app 7.5″ by 5″.

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About the book (from Wikipedia):

The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia. Dostoyevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which is also the main setting of the novel. Since its publication, it has been acclaimed all over the world by thinkers as diverse as Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Cormac McCarthy, Kurt Vonnegut, Alan Dershowitz, and Pope Benedict XVI as one of the supreme achievements in literature.