The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov Daily Activities

Primary Sources:

  • Music to listen to while you read: Click here

  • Free, full online text of this book: Click here

  • Gutenberg Project e-book options: Click here

  • Quotes compiled from this book: Click here

  • Quotes compiled from this author: Click here

  • Quotes about this book/author: Click here

  • Audiobook recording on Youtube: Click here

    • My personal free favorite (Part 1/3): Link

Classroom Sources:

The Brothers Karamazov Socratic Seminar
The Brother Karamazov Essay Q3 Prompt Options

Secondary Sources:

  • Wikipedia: Click here

  • Good Reads Reviews: Click here

  • Sparknotes: Click here

  • PDF: Click here

  • Grand Inquisitor Chapter PDF: Link

  • Study Guide and Summaries from Middlebury: Click here

  • Study Guide for teaching TBK from University of Wisconsin: Click here

  • Faith and Freedom: An interesting blog entry discussing the novel: Click here

  • Cheap paperback copy of the preferred translation: Click here

  • Nice clothbound hardback copy of an excellent translation: Click here

  • Shmoop: Click here

  • The difficulty of translating and interesting story of famous Russian translators like Constance Garnett and Pevear and Volokhonsky: Click here

  • An eerie reading of a favorite passage from TBK: Link

  • Famous Biographer and Stanford Professor Joseph Frank speaks on Dostoevsky's relevance to today's world: Link

  • Professor Hubert Dreyfus on TBK: Link

  • Lecture series (10 hours long!) of UC Berkeley philosophy professor Hubert Dreyfus on TBK: Link

  • UT Austin Professor Lecture on TBK: Link

  • Teaching Guide from Univ. of Wisconsin: Link

  • Using humor (!?) in TBK: Link

  • University of Oregon course on TBK jointly taken at local correctional facility: Link

  • International Dostoevsky Society: Link

  • The Bloggers Karamazov (North American Dostoevsky Society): Link

  • Bloggers Karamazov Series of Post about Dostoevsky and Teaching:

  • Dostoevsky Museum in St. Petersburg: Link

  • Tolstoy or Dostoevsky? 8 experts weigh in: Link

  • Freud essay: "Dostoevsky and Parricide": Link

  • The Brothers Karamazov and Ballet? Link and Link and Link

  • David Foster Wallace article on Joseph Frank's biography of Dostoevsky: Link

  • Famous actor John Gielgud dramatizes the Grand Inquisitor scene: link

Evening Bells Toll by Isaac Levitan (1892)