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The Brothers Karamazov

By Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Translated by Constance Garnett.

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

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Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but, if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

John, xii 24 The Brothers Karamazov Part I Book I The History of a Family I Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov

Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a land owner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place. For the present I will only say that this “landowner”⁠—for so we used to call him, although he hardly spent a day of his life on his own estate⁠—was a strange type, yet one pretty frequently to be