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Title: The Grand Inquisitor

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Title: The Grand Inquisitor Title Record # 2296539
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Date: 1970-00-00
Variant Title of: [Russian] (1879) (by ) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: Translated by Andrew R. MacAndrew
Synopsis: fable told by Ivan Karamazov in The Brothers Karamazov. During the Spanish Inquisition, Jesus returns to Earth, and is promptly imprisoned and ordered to death by the Grand Inquisitor, who upbraids Him for getting in the way of the plans of the church to organize human happiness rationally.
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Rebels and Reactionaries: An Anthology of Great Political Stories 1992-08-00 ed. Mitchell Cohen Dell Laurel 0-440-20816-5
$5.99?$: US dollar
xxii+
520
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
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