The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky · language: en

The Brothers Karamazov Translated from the Russian of Fyodor Dostoyevsky by Constance Garnett The Lowell Press New York Contents Epilogue Footnotes

Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a land owner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place.

For the present I will only say that this “landowner”—for so we used to call him, although he hardly spent a day of his life on his own estate—was a strange type, yet one pretty frequently to be met with, a type abject and vicious and at the same time senseless.

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