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Fiction · 1880

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky · translated by Constance Garnett

Reading time
about 25.5 h
Length
350,676 words · 830 pages in print
Structure
96 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English (translated from Russian)
Era
Victorian

Three sons — the sensualist Dmitri, the intellectual Ivan, the novice monk Alyosha — and their disreputable father, Fyodor Pavlovich, in a Russian provincial town; a murder; a trial. Around that frame Dostoyevsky built his last and largest novel, published in 1880, a few months before his death, containing “The Grand Inquisitor” and the teaching of the Elder Zosima.

The murder is the frame; the argument is the book. Ivan’s poem of the Grand Inquisitor and the teaching of the Elder Zosima are set against each other as two complete answers, and Dostoyevsky gives the stronger case to the side he opposed. Around them are Dmitri’s three thousand roubles, Smerdyakov, Grushenka, a trial that gets everything right except the verdict, and the boys at the stone at the end.

This edition uses Constance Garnett’s translation of 1912. The four parts and the epilogue are given complete.

Contents

  1. Part I
  2. Book I — The History of a Family
  3. Chapter I — Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov
  4. Chapter II — He Gets Rid of His Eldest Son
  5. Chapter III — The Second Marriage and the Second Family
  6. Chapter IV — The Third Son, Alyosha
  7. Chapter V — Elders
  8. Book II — An Unfortunate Gathering
  9. Chapter I — They Arrive at the Monastery
  10. Chapter II — The Old Buffoon
  11. Chapter III — Peasant Women Who Have Faith
  12. Chapter IV — A Lady of Little Faith
  13. Chapter V — So Be It! So Be It!
  14. Chapter VI — Why Is Such a Man Alive?
  15. Chapter VII — A Young Man Bent on a Career
  16. Chapter VIII — The Scandalous Scene
  17. Book III — The Sensualists
  18. Chapter I — In the Servants’ Quarters
  19. Chapter II — Lizaveta
  20. Chapter III — The Confession of a Passionate Heart—In Verse
  21. Chapter IV — The Confession of a Passionate Heart—In Anecdote
  22. Chapter V — The Confession of a Passionate Heart—“Heels Up”
  23. Chapter VI — Smerdyakov
  24. Chapter VII — The Controversy
  25. Chapter VIII — Over the Brandy
  26. Chapter IX — The Sensualists
  27. Chapter X — Both Together
  28. Chapter XI — Another Reputation Ruined
  29. Part II
  30. Book IV — Lacerations
  31. Chapter I — Father Ferapont
  32. Chapter II — At His Father’s
  33. Chapter III — A Meeting with the Schoolboys
  34. Chapter IV — At the Hohlakovs’
  35. Chapter V — A Laceration in the Drawing-Room
  36. Chapter VI — A Laceration in the Cottage
  37. Chapter VII — And in the Open Air
  38. Book V — Pro and Contra
  39. Chapter I — The Engagement
  40. Chapter II — Smerdyakov with a Guitar
  41. Chapter III — The Brothers Make Friends
  42. Chapter IV — Rebellion
  43. Chapter V — The Grand Inquisitor
  44. Chapter VI — For Awhile a Very Obscure One
  45. Chapter VII — “It’s Always Worth While Speaking to a Clever Man”
  46. Book VI — The Russian Monk
  47. Chapter I — Father Zossima and His Visitors
  48. Chapter II — The Duel
  49. Chapter III — Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima
  50. Part III
  51. Book VII — Alyosha
  52. Chapter I — The Breath of Corruption
  53. Chapter II — A Critical Moment
  54. Chapter III — An Onion
  55. Chapter IV — Cana of Galilee
  56. Book VIII — Mitya
  57. Chapter I — Kuzma Samsonov
  58. Chapter II — Lyagavy
  59. Chapter III — Gold-Mines
  60. Chapter IV — In the Dark
  61. Chapter V — A Sudden Resolution
  62. Chapter VI — “I Am Coming, Too!”
  63. Chapter VII — The First and Rightful Lover
  64. Chapter VIII — Delirium
  65. Book IX — The Preliminary Investigation
  66. Chapter I — The Beginning of Perhotin’s Official Career
  67. Chapter II — The Alarm
  68. Chapter III — The Sufferings of a Soul, the First Ordeal
  69. Chapter IV — The Second Ordeal
  70. Chapter V — The Third Ordeal
  71. Chapter VI — The Prosecutor Catches Mitya
  72. Chapter VII — Mitya’s Great Secret. Received with Hisses
  73. Chapter VIII — The Evidence of the Witnesses. The Babe
  74. Chapter IX — They Carry Mitya Away
  75. Part IV
  76. Book X — The Boys
  77. Chapter I — Kolya Krassotkin
  78. Chapter II — Children
  79. Chapter III — The Schoolboy
  80. Chapter IV — The Lost Dog
  81. Chapter V — By Ilusha’s Bedside
  82. Chapter VI — Precocity
  83. Chapter VII — Ilusha
  84. Book XI — Ivan
  85. Chapter I — At Grushenka’s
  86. Chapter II — The Injured Foot
  87. Chapter III — A Little Demon
  88. Chapter IV — A Hymn and a Secret
  89. Chapter V — Not You, Not You!
  90. Chapter VI — The First Interview with Smerdyakov
  91. Chapter VII — The Second Visit to Smerdyakov
  92. Chapter VIII — The Third and Last Interview with Smerdyakov
  93. Chapter IX — The Devil. Ivan’s Nightmare
  94. Chapter X — “It Was He Who Said That”
  95. Book XII — A Judicial Error
  96. Chapter I — The Fatal Day
  97. Chapter II — Dangerous Witnesses
  98. Chapter III — The Medical Experts and a Pound of Nuts
  99. Chapter IV — Fortune Smiles on Mitya
  100. Chapter V — A Sudden Catastrophe
  101. Chapter VI — The Prosecutor’s Speech. Sketches of Character
  102. Chapter VII — An Historical Survey
  103. Chapter VIII — A Treatise on Smerdyakov
  104. Chapter IX — The Galloping Troika. The End of the Prosecutor’s Speech
  105. Chapter X — The Speech for the Defense. An Argument That Cuts Both Ways
  106. Chapter XI — There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery
  107. Chapter XII — And There Was No Murder Either
  108. Chapter XIII — A Corrupter of Thought
  109. Chapter XIV — The Peasants Stand Firm
  110. Epilogue
  111. Chapter I — Plans for Mitya’s Escape
  112. Chapter II — For a Moment the Lie Becomes Truth
  113. Chapter III — Ilusha’s Funeral. The Speech at the Stone
  114. Footnotes

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