Complete and unabridged, with 100 full-page plates by Johann Peter Hasenclever, Carl Joseph Begas and Wassily Kandinsky. A father is murdered and three sons are suspects: the sensualist who wanted his money and his woman, the intellectual who proved that everything is permitted, and the novice who believes. Dostoevsky wrote it in the last two years of his life, working from the case of a man he had known in prison who was convicted of parricide and later cleared. The trial takes two hundred pages and settles nothing. One hundred plates of Russian painting from 1772 to 1920, among them Savrasov and Maximov, carry the novel's world of monasteries, peasants and troubled households.
