Breaking: Mysterious Events Unfold at Northern Estate
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by Fyodor Dostoevsky · 114 chapters
Dostoevsky's final and greatest work—a profound exploration of faith, doubt, morality, and the nature of God through the lens of a Russian family torn apart by murder.
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Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a land owner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic dea...
You can easily imagine what a father such a man could be and how he would bring up his children. His behavior as a father was exactly what might be expected. He completely abandoned the child of his m...
Very shortly after getting his four‐year‐old Mitya off his hands Fyodor Pavlovitch married a second time. His second marriage lasted eight years. He took this second wife, Sofya Ivanovna, also a very...
He was only twenty, his brother Ivan was in his twenty‐fourth year at the time, while their elder brother Dmitri was twenty‐seven. First of all, I must explain that this young man, Alyosha, was not a...
The elder’s absence from his cell had lasted for about twenty‐five minutes. It was more than half‐past twelve, but Dmitri, on whose account they had all met there, had still not appeared. But he seeme...
Dmitri Fyodorovitch, a young man of eight and twenty, of medium height and agreeable countenance, looked older than his years. He was muscular, and showed signs of considerable physical strength. Yet...
Alyosha helped Father Zossima to his bedroom and seated him on his bed. It was a little room furnished with the bare necessities. There was a narrow iron bedstead, with a strip of felt for a mattress....