Dostoevskys highest and most permanent achievement as a novelist lies in his exploration of mans religious complex, his world and his fate. His primary vision is to be found in his last five novels: Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Devils, A Raw Youth, and The Brothers Karamaov. This volume culminates twenty years of studying, teaching, and writing on Dostoevsky. Panichas critically analyes the religious themes and meanings of the authors major works. Focusing on the pervasive spiritual consciousness at play, he views Dostoevsky not as a religious doctrinaire, but as a visionary whose five great novels constitute a sequential meditation on mans human and superhuman destiny