Book 1, Chapter 1 (From the Author)
The narrator introduces Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov as the hero of his story, immediately complicating the reader's expectations.
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From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The novel opens with the narrator introducing Alyosha Karamazov as his hero, while acknowledging the strangeness of this choice.
Book 1, Chapter 1
Famous opening describing Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov as 'a strange type, yet one pretty frequently to be met with, a type abject and vicious and at the same time senseless.'
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