Among the great novels of the world, The Brothers Karamazov stands preeminent. It captures and conveys the highest exaltation and the deepest humiliation of the human spirit; it probes the soul and reveals, with profound psychological clairvoyance, the plight of man in search for some truth about himself. In Fyodor Dostoyevsky the mystic and the realist at last come into accord, and by his compassion and understanding he creates one of the enduring novels in Russian and world literature. Other novels by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the Modern Library are: Crime and Punishment (No. 199) and The Possessed (No. 55).