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The Brothers Karamazov

a Novel in Four Parts and An Epilogue
Nov 25, 2017rpavlacic rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Dostoyevsky's masterwork is not an easy book to read. The paragraphs go on for pages, quotations go on for pages, and the main reason for the book - a murder - doesn't happen until past page 500; the rest is prologue with extended discussions about religion and philosophy. That being said, it's a book that's hard to put down, although in my case it took about three and a half weeks to go through. One never knows for sure truly whodunit until near the very end. More than a mystery novel, this is a book that belongs on every bookshelf ... though I was a bit confused by the translator's explanation (for the version I read, the Penguin Classics edition) as to why the English version is actually longer than the original Russian.