(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)<br><br>Dostoevsky&#8217;s towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues&#8211;brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality&#8211;that made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-century Russia. <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i>, his last and greatest novel, published just before his death in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between the outsized Fyodor Karamazov and his three very different sons. It is above all the story of a murder, told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature.<br><br>This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky&#8211;the definitive version in English&#8211;magnificently captures the rich and subtle energies of Dostoevsky&#8217;s masterpiece.