The Brothers Karamazov

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

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 from January 1879 to November 1880 (separate edition 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.

This edition was translated by Constance Garnett in 1912.

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Contents[edit]

Part I[edit]

Book I — The History of a Family[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Book IV — Lacerations[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Book VII — Alyosha[edit]

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

Book VIII — Mitya[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Book X — The Boys[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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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