The Seaside Library

Wuthering Heights The Rosie Result Warlight Lethal White Everything, Everything The Family Catch-22 War and Peace The Rosie Project Breakfast at Tiffany's Mrs Dalloway Aunts Aren't Gentlemen Invisible Man The Brothers Karamazov The Bluest Eye The Scarlet Letter Asterix Omnibus 1 Asterix Omnibus 2 Asterix Omnibus 3 Kim Asterix Omnibus 9 Asterix Omnibus 10 Les Miserables When Breath Becomes Air Never Let Me Go Madame Bovary Thank You, Jeeves The Time Traveller's Wife Asterix Omnibus 5 The Handmaid's Tale The Venetian Betrayal The Bell Jar

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Acquired in: May 2020 Dostoyevsky's last novel, The Brothers Karamazov, may as well have been his masterpiece. Globally acclaimed as an exceptional piece of literature, this book brings forth topics that I believe most writers avoid. Please do not drop the book and bolt when I say it is chock-full of how-to-go-about-a-parricide, a prolonged courtroom drama, tedious accounts of unattainable love and even more tedious arguments on religious faith. With a little bit of patience (which you need anyway while reading classics), you might love it as much as I do. Of course, I must warn you- heavy drama seems to be Dostoyevsky's forte. Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is an old and wealthy landowner whose sole purpose in life is to get richer and woo women. This wastrel of a man even forgets to look after his sons, who then survive on the kindness of servants and strangers. This neglect by their father kindles hatred in the family and adds fuel to the father-son ri...