36 The Grand Inquisitor - The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Chapter 5 of Book 5 - Pro and Contra Set in 19th-century Russia, The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate #philosophical #novel that enters deeply into questions of God, free will, and morality. It is a theological drama dealing with problems of faith, doubt, and reason in the context of a modernizing Russia, with a plot that revolves around the subject of patricide. Dostoevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which inspired the main setting. It has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world #literature. (Wikipedia) #audiobook Read by Bruce Pirie. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.