The BROTHERS KARAMAZOV. A Novel in Four Parts & Epilog. The Translation by Constance Garnett revised, with an introduction by Andrew Yarmolinsky

First Easton Press edition, illustrated by the artist Fritz Eichenberg. Illustrated from original lithographs by Fritz Eichenberg. 4to , bound in the publisher's original red leather, the covers fully gilt in an all-over design, the spine with raised bands separating the compartments, the compartments fully decorated and lettered in gilt, silk doublures and endleaves, all edges gilt, silk ribbon marker. xxii, 604 pp. A pristine copy, as mint.

Edizione: first easton press edition with powerful lithographs by fritz eichenberg. there are 48 full page illustrations from lithographic "etchings on stone" and also 17 line drawings which are used as decorations.<br> the brothers karamazov was dostoevskyís final novel, on which he spent most of the last two years of his life writing. it is more then a classic of russian literature, it is a passionate philosophical novel that enters deeply into the ethical debates of god, free will, and morality. one of literature's greatest spiritual dramas, it has been acclaimed all over the world by thinkers as diverse as sigmund freud, albert einstein, ludwig wittgenstein, martin heidegger, cormac mccarthy, kurt vonnegut and pope benedict xvi as one of the supreme achievements in literature.