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Dostoevskys last novel is considered his masterpiece and tells the story of a family and the appetites and struggles that lead to patricide. With rich character development and understanding of humanity, Dostoevsky comes across as a force of nature.
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by Gary Carey, M.A. University of Colorado and James L. Roberts, Ph.D. Department of English University of Nebraska
including Life and Background General Plot Summary List of Characters Summaries and Commentaries Character Analyses Chronological Chart Review Questions Selected Bibliography
INCORPORATED LINCOLN, NEBRASKA 68501
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Editor Gary Carey, M.A. University of Colorado
Consulting Editor James L. Roberts, Ph.D. Department of English University of Nebraska
ISBN 0-8220-0265-5 Copyright 1967 by Cliffs Notes, Inc. All Rights Reserved Printed in U.S.A.
1999 Printing
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Contents
Life and Background
5
General Plot Summary
7
List of Characters
11
Summaries and Commentaries
Part One
15
Part Two
36
Part Three
61
Part Four
72
Epilogue
82
Character Analyses
Fyodor Karamazov
83
Dmitri
84
Ivan
85
Alyosha
86
Grushenka
87
Chronological Chart
89
Review Questions
91
Selected Bibliography
92
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Life and Background
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born of lower-middle-class parents in 1821, the second of seven children, and lived until 1881. His father, an army doctor attached to the staff of a public hospital, was a stern and righteous man while his mother was the oppositepassive, kindly, and generousand this fact accounts perhaps for Dostoevsky's often filling his novels with characters who seem to possess opposite extremes of character.
Dostoevsky's early education was in an army engineering school, where he was apparently bored with the dull routine and the unimaginative student life. He spent most of his time, therefore, dabbling in literary matters and reading the latest authors; the penchant for literature was obsessive. And, almost as obsessive was Dostoevsky's interest in death, for while the young student was away at school, his father was killed by the serfs on his estate. This sudden and savage murder smouldered within the young Dostoevsky and, when he began to write, the subject of crime, and murder in particular, was present in every new publication; Dostoevsky was never free of the horrors of homicide and even at the end of his life, he chose to write of a violent deaththe death of a fatheras the basis for his masterpiece,
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