Course Description: This course offers and in depth analysis and discussion of this 16th and final novel by important Russian novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. He spent spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880. Dostoevsky died less than four months after its publication. It has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature. We’ll consider the important themes of the book and the historical context of a modernizing Russia.

Instructor: Prof. Norman Wesley’s career spans fifty years of teaching English, American, and world literature as well as grammar and linguistics at American colleges and universities and briefly at Cambridge University in England. He is now a retired [emeritus] professor from The State University of New York and lives in Fernandina Beach.

Schedule: 8 sessions: Tuesdays, Sept. 29, Oct. 6, 13, 20, 27, Nov. 3, 10, 17; 10:30am-12:30pm.

Location: Room 201, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 801 Atlantic Ave., Fernandina Beach

Cost: $50

Materials: Any edition of The Brothers Karamazov.