The Karamazov Brothers (Wordsworth Classics)

Another chunky read. Worth it.

Classic book

Very pleased with this book! Although I can't read it without my glasses, print is really small- content is all that matters! Good to return and read classic books , so glad these aren't expensive. Definitely recommend

Really good deal for the price. The font size is pretty normal, but because it's paperback the covers edges might be slightly bended/folded, nothing too bad though.

It feels like I entered the world of this book when I read it. It also has also influenced my life beyond it in many ways. I highly recommend it.

One of the best writers who ever lived and by far one of his best works. He explores so many universal themes and concepts and manages to integrate the meaning of life into one book. Very fascinating world Dostoevsky creates with his beautiful writing style and definitely a must read for anyone who is a reader

When Dostoevsky finally gets into the story it becomes clear that he is a high quality writer, unfortunately he takes 400 pages to get there. Before then we get lots of flab about characters who play only a minor part in the real action, these could have been introduced via the story and less time wasted on them. The character of Father Zossima gets tons of spiel and we go through his complete life story; apart from being Aloysha Karamazov's guiding inspiration, he takes no part in the story whatsoever. Dostoevsky, the 2nd half, describes Aloysha as his 'hero'. In fact he gets very little booktime as Dostoevsky concentrates on Dmitri Kazamov. At the end the prosecutor's final speech in the trial of ? ? for the murder of Dad Karamazov adds nothing new and goes on interminably. I was very disappointed by this novel, which some people think Dostoevsky's masterpiece.

I admire Fyodor but he has little artistic accomplishment or mind. Yet, I admire his heart, a criticism which contains a great deal of truth, for though his characters do act extravagantly, madly, almost, still their basis is firm enough underneath... The Brothers Karamazov... made a deep impression on me... he created some unforgettable scenes.. Madness you may call it, but therein may be the secret of his genius... I prefer the word exaltation, exaltation which can merge into madness, perhaps. In fact all great men have had that vein in them; it was the source of their greatness; the reasonable man achieves nothing

One of my favourite reads. Dostoevsky captures the complexities of human nature with extraordinary depth and compassion. It’s a slow burn, but each page offers something meaningful — a true classic for readers who enjoy thought-provoking literature.

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Ver very very small fonts, painful to read.

En perfecto estado

'द सुप्रीम समिट ऑफ आल लिटरेचर' यह बात आइंस्टाइन ने फ्योदोर दॉस्तोएव्स्की के उपन्यास 'द करामज़ोव ब्रदर्स' के बारे में कही थी। यह कृति दॉस्तोएव्स्की की magnum opus कही जाती है। मैंने आज इसको पढ़ कर ख़त्म किया। लगभग तीन सप्ताह तक इसको पढ़ता रहा क्योंकि यह बड़ी पुस्तक है... 'वॉर एंड पीस' के बाद सबसे वृहद पुस्तक है, 96 अध्याय और चार लाख शब्दों की. बड़े का दूसरा अर्थ ज़्यादा महत्त्वपूर्ण है कि यह कितने गम्भीर अर्थों में यह प्रभावित करती है। आध्यात्मिकता, ईश्वर प्रेम और सांसारिक झमेले इन सबका ऐसा रसायन जिसको साधना सबके बूते की बात नहीं है। लगभग 100 पात्रों की यह रचना हर पात्र से आपका परिचय कराती है, बिल्कुल डिंस्टिंक्टनेस से। वे याद रह जाते हैं। उनके चेहरे के भाव से लेकर उनके अन्दर चल रही उठा-पटक सब आप देख पाते हैं। उनकी सामाजिक-व्यक्तिगत स्थिति और उनके चरित्र का सम्बन्ध एकदम साफ खुल जाता है आपके सामने। कहानी पर जाना न तो सम्भव है न ठीक है लेकिन जिसको भी 900 पेज़ में फैली एक कहानी पढ़ने का धीरज हो, उसे पढ़ना चाहिए। मुझे पढ़ते समय एक साथ यह महसूस होता रहा कि कब ख़त्म होगी... काश ख़त्म न हो। बच्चों से डील करने का क्या तरीक़ा हो, झूठ को क्यों न अपना चरित्र बनाएं, इस पर इससे बेहतर अन्तर्दृष्टियाँ शायद ही कहीं मिलें। पुस्तक के चार छोटे-बड़े उद्धरण नीचे हैं जो मुझे बहुत अच्छे लगे। आपको तय करना है कि यह जिन प्रसंगों में आये होंगे वे कितने अच्छे होंगे या पुस्तक में किस हद तक मथकर निकले हैं। 1)Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us. 2) Every day and every hour, every minute, walk round yourself and watch yourself, and see that your image is a seemly one. You pass by a little child, you pass by, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenceless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you didn't foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love. 3) Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete beastiality, and it all comes form lying continually to others and himself. A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. it sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn't it? And surely he knows that no one has offended him, and that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked up on a word and made a mountain out of a pea--he knows all of that, and still he is the first to take offense, he likes feeling offended, it gives him great pleasure, and thus he reaches the point of real hostility... 4) You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. If a man carries many such memories with him into life, he is safe to the end of his days, and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometime be the means of saving us.