The Brothers Karamazov (The Modern Library, No. 151)

New York: The Modern Library, 1950-01-01. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 7x4x1. 1954-59 printing, Toledano 021.2, binding/jacket style 8i with 372 titles on verso, $1.45 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Hinges loosening, owner bookplate on front endpaper, pencil marks on a few pages, jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners. xxiv, 939 pp. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. Introduction by Marc Slonim. "The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880. Dostoyevsky intended it to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great Sinner, but he died less than four months after its publication. The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that explores deep into the ethical debates of God, free will and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, reason and modern Russia. Dostoyevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which is also the main setting of the novel. Since its publication, it has been acclaimed all over the world by thinkers as diverse as Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein as one of the supreme achievements in literature." -- Wikipedia