Brothers KaramazovIn 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist, Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosha, the mystic; and twisted, cunning Smerdyakov, the bastard child. Frequently lurid, nightmarish, always brilliant, the novel plunges the reader into a sordid love triangle, a pathological obsession, and a gripping courtroom drama. But throughout the whole, Dostoevsky searhes for the truth--about man, about life, about the existence of God. A terrifying answer to man's eternal questions, this monumental work remains the crowning achievement of perhaps the finest novelist of all time. From the Paperback edition. |
Contents
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PART | 5 |
A PECULIAR FAMILY HISTORY 1 Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov | 7 |
He Gets Rid of His Eldest Son | 11 |
The Second Marriage and the Second Family | 15 |
The Third SonAlyosha | 22 |
Elders | 32 |
AN INCONGRUOUS GATHERING 1 They Arrive at the Monastery | 42 |
The Gold Mines | 508 |
In the Dark | 522 |
A Sudden Resolution | 529 |
Im Coming | 548 |
The First and Rightful One | 558 |
Delirium | 578 |
PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION 1 Peter Perkhotin Starts Out on His Career as Civil Servant | 596 |
Alarm | 604 |
The Old Buffoon | 48 |
Women of Great Faith | 58 |
A Lady of Little Faith | 66 |
So It Shall Be and So Be It | 75 |
Why Should Such a Man Live? | 85 |
A Careerconscious Divinity Student | 97 |
A Scandalous Scene | 108 |
THE SENSUALISTS 1 In the Servants Quarters | 119 |
Reeking Lizaveta | 125 |
The Confession of an Ardent Heart in Verse | 130 |
The Confession of an Ardent Heart in Prose | 140 |
Head over Heels | 150 |
Smerdyakov | 161 |
The Debate | 167 |
Over Brandy | 173 |
The Sensualists | 182 |
Two Women Meet | 190 |
One More Reputation Ruined | 203 |
TORMENT | 215 |
Alyosha in His Fathers House | 227 |
At the Khokhlakovs | 238 |
Heartbreak in the Drawing Room | 246 |
Heartbreak in a Hovel | 259 |
Heartbreak Outdoors | 269 |
PRO AND CONTRA | 282 |
Smerdyakov and His Guitar | 295 |
The Brothers Get Acquainted | 303 |
Rebellion | 314 |
The Grand Inquisitor | 328 |
Still Unclear | 353 |
Its Always Rewarding to Talk to a Clever Man | 366 |
A RUSSIAN MONK | 376 |
Some Thoughts and Teachings of the Elder Zosima | 418 |
F Of Masters and Servants and of Whether They Can Become Brothers in Spirit | 421 |
G Of Prayer Love and Ties with Other Worlds | 426 |
H Can A Man Judge His Fellow Men? Of Faith to the End | 429 |
Of Hell and Hell Fire a Mystical Discourse | 431 |
PART THREE | 435 |
ALYOSHA 1 The Smell of Decay | 437 |
The Crucial Moment | 451 |
One Onion | 459 |
Cana of Galilee | 481 |
MITYA 1 Kuzma Samsonov | 487 |
The Hound | 499 |
The First Ordeal | 612 |
The Second Ordeal | 622 |
The Third Ordeal | 630 |
The Prosecutor Catches Mitya | 644 |
Mitya Reveals His Secret and Is Heckled | 654 |
The Testimony of the Witnesses The Babe | 667 |
They Take Him Away | 679 |
PART FOUR | 685 |
THE BOYS 1 Kolya Krasotkin | 687 |
The Children | 693 |
The Schoolboys | 699 |
Juchka | 709 |
At Ilyushas Bedside | 717 |
Precosciousness | 737 |
Ilyusha | 746 |
IVAN 1 At Grushenkas | 751 |
The Injured Foot | 762 |
The Hell Kitten | 775 |
A Hymn and a Secret | 783 |
Not You Not You | 800 |
The First Meeting with Smerdyakov | 807 |
The Second Meeting with Smerdyakov | 819 |
The Third and Last Meeting with Smerdyakov | 831 |
Ivans Nightmare and the Devil | 850 |
It Was He Who Said That | 873 |
MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE 1 The Fatal Day | 880 |
Dangerous Witnesses | 888 |
The Medical Experts and a Pound of Nuts | 899 |
Things Look Up for Mitya | 906 |
Sudden Disaster | 917 |
The Public Prosecutors Speech Psychological Portrayals | 930 |
A Chronological Survey | 942 |
A Treatise on Smerdyakov | 948 |
Full Steam Ahead into Psychology A Galloping Troika The Finale of the Prosecutors Speech | 960 |
The Summation of the Defense An Argument That Cuts Both Ways | 975 |
There Was No Money and No Robbery | 980 |
No Murder Either | 988 |
Corrupters of Thought | 998 |
Our Good Old Peasants Stand Their Ground | 1008 |
Plans to Save Mitya | 1019 |
A Lie Temporarily Becomes the Truth | 1025 |
Ilyushas Funeral The Speech by the Stone | 1034 |
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Common terms and phrases
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