THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV

1879

by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky


translated by Constance Garnett


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 - (c) Recollections of Father Zossima's Youth before
  • 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
  • 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 Catastrophe
  • 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