THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
translated by Constance Garnett

1879

Contents

PART I
1 The History of a Family
 1 Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov
 2 He Gets Rid of His Eldest Son
 3 The Second Marriage and the Second Family
 4 The Third Son, Alyosha
 5 Elders
2 An Unfortunate Gathering
 1 They Arrive at the Monastery
 2 The Old Buffoon
 3 Peasant Women Who Have Faith
 4 A Lady of Little Faith
 5 So Be It! So Be It!
 6 Why Is Such a Man Alive?
 7 A Young Man Bent on a Career
 8 The Scandalous Scene
3 The Sensualists
 1 In the Servants’ Quarters
 2 Lizaveta
 3 The Confession of a Passionate Heart - in Verse
 4 The Confession of a Passionate Heart - In Anecdote
 5 The Confession of a Passionate Heart - “Heels Up”
 6 Smerdyakov
 7 The Controversy
 8 Over the Brandy
 9 The Sensualists
 10 Both Together
 11 Another Reputation Ruined
PART II
4 Lacerations
 1 Father Ferapont
 2 At His Father’s
 3 A Meeting with the Schoolboys
 4 At the Hohlakovs’
 5 A Laceration in the Drawing-Room
 6 A Laceration in the Cottage
 7 And in the Open Air
5 Pro and Contra
 1 The Engagement
 2 Smerdyakov with a Guitar
 3 The Brothers Make Friends
 4 Rebellion
 5 The Grand Inquisitor
 6 For Awhile a Very Obscure One
 7 “It’s Always Worth While Speaking to a Clever Man”
6 The Russian Monk.
 1 Father Zossima and His Visitors
 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
 2 Chapter 2
 3 Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima
PART III
7 Alyosha
 1 The Breath of Corruption
 2 A Critical Moment
 3 An Onion
 4 Cana of Galilee
8 Mitya
 1 Kuzma Samsonov
 2 Lyagavy
 3 Gold Mines
 4 In the Dark
 5 A Sudden Resolution
 6 “I Am Coming, Too!”
 7 The First and Rightful Lover
 8 Delirium
9 The Preliminary Investigation
 1 The Beginning of Perhotin’s Official Career
 2 The Alarm
 The Sufferings of a Soul
 3 The First Ordeal
 4 The Second Ordeal
 5 The Third Ordeal
 6 The Prosecutor Catches Mitya
 7 Mitya’s Great Secret Received with Hisses
 8 The Evidences of the Witnesses. The Babe
 9 They Carry Mitya Away
PART IV
10 The Boys
 1 Kolya Krassotkin
 2 Children
 3 The Schoolboy
 4 The Lost Dog
 5 By Ilusha’s Bedside
 6 Precocity
 7 Ilusha
11 Ivan
 1 At Grushenka’s
 2 The Injured Foot
 3 A Little Demon
 4 A Hymn and a Secret
 5 Not You, Not You!
 6 The First Interview with Smerdyakov
 7 The Second Visit to Smerdyakov
 8 The Third and Last Interview with Smerdyakov
 9 The Devil. Ivan’s Nightmare
 10 “It Was He Who Said That”
12 A Judicial Error
 1 The Fatal Day
 2 Dangerous Witnesses
 3 The Medical Experts and a Pound of Nuts
 4 Fortune Smiles on Mitya
 5 A Sudden Catastrophe
 6 The Prosecutor’s Speech. Sketches of Character
 7 An Historical Survey
 8 A Treatise on Smerdyakov
 9 The Galloping Troika. The End of the Prosecutor’s Speech
 10 The Speech for the Defence. An Argument that Cuts Both Ways
 11 There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery
 12 And There Was No Murder Either
 13 A Corrupter of Thought
 14 The Peasants Stand Firm
13 EPILOGUE
 1 Plans for Mitya’s Escape
 2 For a Moment the Lie Becomes Truth
 3 Ilusha’s Funeral. The Speech at the Stone