The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. Brothers Panteleev, St Petersburg, 1880. First edition, 2 volumes, octavo, pp. 700, 510. Contemporary Russian half morocco binding and marbled boards. Original half-titles present in all volumes. The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that enters deeply into questions of God, free will and morality. It is a theological drama dealing with problems of faith, doubt and reason in the context of a modernizing Russia with a plot that revolves around the subject of patricide.