Fyodor Dostoevsky THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV Franklin Library Great Books Of The Wes
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Franklin Library leather edition of Fyodor Dostoevsky's, "The Brothers Karamazov".Translated by Constance Garnett Illustrated by Walt Spitzmiller 25th ANNIVERSARY LIMITED EDITION of THE GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD - published 1977
Bound in camel tan leather, Hardcover Near Fine, Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of chocolate brown moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This... book is in full leather with hubbed spine, satin book marker, gold gilding on all three edges. Excellent condition, unread, no markings, book marker is in it's original position. This fine book looks AMAZING on the shelf !!
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, who lived from 1821-1881, was born in MOSCOW, where his father had been a soldier during Napoleon's invasion. For his services, the Czar appointed his father superintendent of a large state hospital in Moscow. Fyodor was sent to St. Petersburg at age sixteen to the School of Military Engineers, but after completing his studies in six years, he resigned his commission and decided to become a writer. "The Brothers Karamazov" revolves around one central event----the murder of the Karamazov's father. Critics have related the event to the character and murder of Dostoevsky's own father and from the author's experiences in a Siberian penal colony. In 1878 his three-year-old son died from an epileptic fit. Dostoevsky, who also suffered from epilepsy, was shattered by this tragedy and sought consolation in a pilgrimage to the Optina Monastery and there he began writing the novel, a passionate philosophical work set in 19th century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia. Since its publication, it has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature. 923 pages.
Bound in camel tan leather, Hardcover Near Fine, Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of chocolate brown moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This... book is in full leather with hubbed spine, satin book marker, gold gilding on all three edges. Excellent condition, unread, no markings, book marker is in it's original position. This fine book looks AMAZING on the shelf !!
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, who lived from 1821-1881, was born in MOSCOW, where his father had been a soldier during Napoleon's invasion. For his services, the Czar appointed his father superintendent of a large state hospital in Moscow. Fyodor was sent to St. Petersburg at age sixteen to the School of Military Engineers, but after completing his studies in six years, he resigned his commission and decided to become a writer. "The Brothers Karamazov" revolves around one central event----the murder of the Karamazov's father. Critics have related the event to the character and murder of Dostoevsky's own father and from the author's experiences in a Siberian penal colony. In 1878 his three-year-old son died from an epileptic fit. Dostoevsky, who also suffered from epilepsy, was shattered by this tragedy and sought consolation in a pilgrimage to the Optina Monastery and there he began writing the novel, a passionate philosophical work set in 19th century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia. Since its publication, it has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature. 923 pages.
