The Brothers Karamazov (Unabridged)
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3.0 • 6 Ratings
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- £8.99
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Publisher Description
The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky and is generally considered the culmination of his life's work. Published in November 1880, Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing the novel set in 19th-century Russia.
Fydor Karamazov, a mean and disreputable landowner, has three sons, Dmitry, a profligate army officer; Ivan, a writer with revolutionary ideas; and Alexey, a religious novice. A drama of patricide and fraternal jealousy unfolds, involving the questions of anarchism and atheism, and giving a portrait of Russian society in the turbulent 1870s.
Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) was a Russian fiction writer, essayist, and philosopher whose works have been acclaimed all over the world by thinkers as diverse as Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein.
Please note: This is a vintage recording. The audio quality may not be up to modern day standards.
Translated by David Magarshack
Customer Reviews
Brothers Karamazov
What is the narrator eating while reading this? Awful waste of time instead of a delight.
RM
I love Gabriel Woolf's voice, I was completely lost in this book. Brilliant.
Awful narration.
The novel itself may be utterly brilliant, but Gabriel Woolf manages to spoil it with his dreadful style of narration. Maybe we should give him credit for agreeing to read for 37 hours, but he shouldn't have bothered. His attempt to turn every sentence into a melodramatic piece of oratory is hugely irritating and only creates a barrier between the listener and the novel. I couldn't stand more than 8 hours of him.