Read The Brothers Karamazov in Englishwith every sentence explained

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was first published in 1880. In Passage you read the full text in English, marked advanced and filed under thriller and suspense.

A father nobody can love. Three sons who cannot escape him.

Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov is a greedy, clownish landowner who left his children to be raised by servants and relatives. Now his sons are grown and back in town: Dmitri, a reckless former officer convinced his father has cheated him of his inheritance; Ivan, a brilliant, cold intellectual who cannot accept God's world; and Alyosha, the gentle youngest, a novice at the local monastery under the wise elder Zossima.

Father and eldest son are rivals for money and for the same woman, the bewitching Grushenka, and every family gathering ends in scandal. Alyosha moves between them all, trying to keep the peace, while the narrator warns us from the very first page that the old man's death will be "gloomy and tragic".

Dostoyevsky's last novel, with its famous chapter "The Grand Inquisitor", is both a gripping family drama and a great argument about faith, freedom and guilt. Freud called it the most magnificent novel ever written.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked advanced, with richer vocabulary and longer sentences. If it feels heavy, start with an intermediate English book and come back to it. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.