The Brothers Karamazov 4 parts

A novel by the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, generally considered the culmination of his works. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published in chapters in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880. Dostoyevsky intended it to be the first part of an epic entitled The Story of the Life of a Great Sinner, but he died less than four months after the publication of The Brothers Karamazov. In late January 1881, just a few weeks after the final chapters of the novel were published in The Russian Messenger, Dostoyevsky died in January 1881, just a few weeks after the publication of the last chapters of the novel in The Russian Messenger.