The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide & family rivalry that embodies the moral & spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s). It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication, in 1866, of Crime & Punishment. To Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov captured the quintessence of Russian character in all its exaltation, compassion, & profligacy. Significantly,...

Brothers Subhash and Udayan Mitra pursue vastly different lives--Udayan in rebellion-torn Calcutta, Subhash in a quiet corner of America--until a shattering tragedy compels Subhash to return to India, where he endeavors to heal family wounds

Wade Whitehouse is an improbable protagonist for a tragedy. A well-digger and policeman in a bleak New Hampshire town, he is a former high-school star gone to beer fat, a loner with a mean streak. Wade comes to loom in one's mind as a blue-collar American Everyman afflicted by the dark secret of the macho tradition.

Charlie Babbitt (Cruise) has just discovered he has an autistic brother named Raymond (Hoffman) and is now taking him on the ride of his life. Or is it the other way around? From his refusal to drive on major highways to a "four minutes to Wapner" meltdown at an Oklahoma farmhouse, Raymond first pushes hot-headed Charlie to the limits of his patience ... and then pulls him completely out of his self-centered world! But what begins as an unsentimental...

The rivalry between two brothers reaches a fever pitch during a charity swim competition.

"Micky Ward ... is a struggling boxer long overshadowed by his older brother and trainer, Dicky ..., a local legend battling his own demons. Their explosive relationship threatens to take them both down--but the bond of blood may be their only chance for redemption"--Container

In nineteenth-century Denmark, two peasant brothers, Laust and Peter, are both in love with the same woman: Inge, the estate manager's daughter. When war with Prussia breaks out, the brothers' report for duty in the Danish army and are sent to the front along with thousands of their fellow soldiers. Their relationship with Inge helps Laust and Peter as they encounter the horrors of war, but eventually it creates a rift between them.

Dare and Roost are brothers who were raised in a reformatory, taught to survive and conditioned to trust no one. They have moved to West Los Angeles, where Dare moonlights as a detective and Roost watches John Wayne films and becomes a recluse. Dare is obsessed with Winky, a phantom like criminal who is terrorizing the community. As Dare closes in on Winky, these brothers must make the ultimate commitment and pay the extraordinary consequences therein....

Having not spoken to each other in a year, three American brothers set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other. The brothers wanted to regain their friendship of each other. Their "spiritual quest," however, veers rapidly off-course -- thanks in part to over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray. Eventually the three find themselves stranded alone in the middle of the desert...

Revealed is how this groundbreaking comedy television program became a hot bed of controversy, igniting laughter and social consciousness across a nation. Tells the story of censorship struggles. On CBS from 1967 until it was cancelled in 1969, the beloved hosts pioneered a turning point in American television history