The most magnificent novel ever written Sigmund Freud the murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, driven to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the familys rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother, Smerdyakov. Dostoyevskys dark masterwork evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur, and everyones faith in humanity is tested. Translated with an Introduction and notes by DAVID McDUFF