The Brothers Karamazov (Unabridged)

Dostoevsky&amp;#39;s last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons – the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha – are all at some level involved. <br/> Bound up with this intense family drama is Dostoevsky&amp;#39;s exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, the question of human freedom, the collective nature of guilt, the disatrous consequences of rationalism. The novel is also richly comic: the Russian Orthodox Church, the legal system, and even the auth…