The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov  (1880)  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Constance Garnett

information about this edition.  The Brothers Karamazov . . . is the last novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, generally considered the culmination of his life's work. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November of 1880. Dostoevsky intended it to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great Sinner, but he died fewer than four months after publication. — Excerpted from The Brothers Karamazov on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This edition was translated by Constance Garnett in 1912.

Contents

Part I

Book I — The History of a Family

• Chapter 1 — Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov
• Chapter 2 — He Gets Rid of His Eldest Son
• Chapter 3 — The Second Marriage and the Second Family
• Chapter 4 — The Third Son, Alyosha
• Chapter 5 — Elders

Book II — An Unfortunate Gathering

• Chapter 1 — They Arrive at the Monastery
• Chapter 2 — The Old Buffoon
• Chapter 3 — Peasant Women Who Have Faith
• Chapter 4 — A Lady of Little Faith
• Chapter 5 — So Be It! So Be It!
• Chapter 6 — Why Is Such a Man Alive?
• Chapter 7 — A Young Man Bent on a Career
• Chapter 8 — The Scandalous Scene

Book III — The Sensualists

• Chapter 1 — In the Servants' Quarters
• Chapter 2 — Lizaveta
• Chapter 3 — The Confession of a Passionate Heart- in Verse
• Chapter 4 — The Confession of a Passionate Heart- In Anecdote
• Chapter 5 — The Confession of a Passionate Heart- "Heels Up"
• Chapter 6 — Smerdyakov
• Chapter 7 — The Controversy
• Chapter 8 — Over the Brandy
• Chapter 9 — The Sensualists
• Chapter 10 — Both Together
• Chapter 11 — Another Reputation Ruined

Part II

Book IV — Lacerations

• Chapter 1 — Father Ferapont
• Chapter 2 — At His Father's
• Chapter 3 — A Meeting with the Schoolboys
• Chapter 4 — At the Hohlakovs'
• Chapter 5 — A Laceration in the Drawing-Room
• Chapter 6 — A Laceration in the Cottage
• Chapter 7 — And in the Open Air

Book V — Pro and Contra

• Chapter 1 — The Engagement
• Chapter 2 — Smerdyakov with a Guitar
• Chapter 3 — The Brothers Make Friends
• Chapter 4 — Rebellion
• Chapter 5 — The Grand Inquisitor
• Chapter 6 — For Awhile a Very Obscure One
• Chapter 7 — "It's Always Worth While Speaking to a Clever Man"

Book VI — The Russian Monk

• Chapter 1 — Father Zossima and His Visitors
• Chapter 2 — Notes on the Life of the Deceased Priest and Monk, the Elder Zossima, Taken from His Own Words by Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov
• Chapter 3 — Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima

Part III

Book VII — Alyosha

• Chapter 1 — The Breath of Corruption
• Chapter 2 — A Critical Moment
• Chapter 3 — An Onion
• Chapter 4 — Cana of Galilee

Book VIII — Mitya

• Chapter 1 — Kuzma Samsonov
• Chapter 2 — Lyagavy
• Chapter 3 — Gold Mines
• Chapter 4 — In the Dark
• Chapter 5 — A Sudden Resolution
• Chapter 6 — "I Am Coming, Too!"
• Chapter 7 — The First and Rightful Lover
• Chapter 8 — Delirium

Book IX — The Preliminary Investigation

• Chapter 1 — The Beginning of Perhotin's Official Career
• Chapter 2 — The Alarm
• Chapter 3 — The Sufferings of a Soul — The First Ordeal
• Chapter 4 — The Second Ordeal
• Chapter 5 — The Third Ordeal
• Chapter 6 — The Prosecutor Catches Mitya
• Chapter 7 — Mitya's Great Secret Received with Hisses
• Chapter 8 — The Evidences of the Witnesses. The Babe
• Chapter 9 — They Carry Mitya Away

Part IV

Book X — The Boys

• Chapter 1 — Kolya Krassotkin
• Chapter 2 — Children
• Chapter 3 — The Schoolboy
• Chapter 4 — The Lost Dog
• Chapter 5 — By Ilusha's Bedside
• Chapter 6 — Precocity
• Chapter 7 — Ilusha

Book XI — Ivan

• Chapter 1 — At Grushenka's
• Chapter 2 — The Injured Foot
• Chapter 3 — A Little Demon
• Chapter 4 — A Hymn and a Secret
• Chapter 5 — Not You, Not You!
• Chapter 6 — The First Interview with Smerdyakov
• Chapter 7 — The Second Visit to Smerdyakov
• Chapter 8 — The Third and Last Interview with Smerdyakov
• Chapter 9 — The Devil. Ivan's Nightmare
• Chapter 10 — "It Was He Who Said That"

Book XII — A Judicial Error

• Chapter 1 — The Fatal Day
• Chapter 2 — Dangerous Witnesses
• Chapter 3 — The Medical Experts and a Pound of Nuts
• Chapter 4 — Fortune Smiles on Mitya
• Chapter 5 — A Sudden Castrophe
• Chapter 6 — The Prosecutor's Speech. Sketches of Character
• Chapter 7 — An Historical Survey
• Chapter 8 — A Treatise on Smerdyakov
• Chapter 9 — The Galloping Troika. The End of the Prosecutor's Speech
• Chapter 10 — The Speech for the Defence. An Argument that Cuts Both Ways
• Chapter 11 — There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery
• Chapter 12 — And There Was No Murder Either
• Chapter 13 — A Corrupter of Thought
• Chapter 14 — The Peasants Stand Firm

Epilogue

• Chapter 1 — Plans for Mitya's Escape
• Chapter 2 — For a Moment the Lie Becomes Truth
• Chapter 3 — Ilusha's Funeral. The Speech at the Stone

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