The Grand Inquisitor Summary
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The Grand Inquisitor Summary

"The Grand Inquisitor" was originally published as the fifth chapter of the fifth book of Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov, his last and perhaps his greatest work. Dostoevsky died just months after the novel was published, and he did not live to see the peculiar situation of his novel's most famous chapter being excerpted as a short story—something he did not intend. A further peculiarity arises from the fact that the...

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