Franklin Library: FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY: BROTHERS KARAMAZOV: RUSSIA: 19TH CENTURY

Description: Franklin Library leather edition of Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov," Translated by Constance Garnett, Illustrated by Walt Spitzmiller, a Limited edition, one of the 25TH ANNIVERSARY of the GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD series, published in 1977. Bound in camel tan leather, the book has brown French moire silk end leaves, hubbed spine, satin book marker, gold gilding on three edge---in near Fine condition---except for 'minor' imperfection to gilt. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, who lived from 1821-1881, was born in MOSCOW, where his father had been a soldier during Napoleon's invasion. For his services, the Czar appointed his father superintendent of a large state hospital in Moscow. Fyodor was sent to St. Petersburg at age sixteen to the School of Military Engineers, but after completing his studies in six years, he resigned his commission and decided to become a writer. "The Brothers Karamazov" revolves around one central event----the murder of the Karamazov's father. Critics have related the event to the character and murder of Dostoevsky's own father and from the author's experiences in a Siberian penal colony. In 1878 his three-year-old son died from an epileptic fit. Dostoevsky, who also suffered from epilepsy, was shattered by this tragedy and sought consolation in a pilgrimage to the Optina Monastery and there he began writing the novel, a passionate philosophical work set in 19th century Russia, 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. Since its publication, it has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature. 923 page---a RARE title. I offer Combined shipping.

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