The Brothers Karamazov

Dostoevsky’s final and greatest novel centres on the murder of a father and the guilt, faith, and doubt of his four very different sons. Through the sensual Dmitri, the intellectual Ivan, the gentle Alyosha, and their bitter half-brother, it stages the deepest questions of God, freedom, and moral responsibility. Widely held to be one of the supreme achievements of world literature, it is as much a spiritual drama as a family tragedy.