{"product_id":"9780241655566","title":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky Boxed Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eA beautiful boxed set of clothbound classics bringing together Dostoyevsky's three greatest novels This stunning clothbound set, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, brings together Dostoyevsky's three greatest novels in modern translations from Penguin Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRaskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with Porfiry, a suspicious detective, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption. As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true identity of the murderer, Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur and everyone's faith in humanity is tested.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReturning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett’s drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original story.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn The Brothers Karamazov, a murder changes the lives of four brothers for ever; in Crime and Punishment a student commits an appalling act of random violence; and in The Idiot, a gentle and naive aristocrat finds himself drawn into a web of blackmail and betrayal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Fyodor+Dostoyevsky\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eFyodor Dostoyevsky\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990562619555,"sku":"9780241655566","price":665.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/9780241655566.jpg?v=1786874741","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9780241655566","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}