The Brothers KaramazovThe Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide and family rivalry that embodies the moral and spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s). It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication, in 1866, of Crime and Punishment. To Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov captured the quintessence of Russian character in all its exaltation, compassion, and profligacy. Significantly, the book was on Tolstoy's bedside table when he died. Readers in every language have since accepted Dostoevsky's own evaluation of this work and have gone further by proclaiming it one of the few great novels of all ages and countries. "The Brothers Karamazov stands as the culmination of Dostoevsky's art—his last, longest, richest, and most capacious book," said The Washington Post Book World. "Nothing is outside Dostoevsky's province," observed Virginia Woolf. "Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading." |
Contents
In the Dark | 442 |
A Sudden Resolution | 448 |
I Am Coming Too | 464 |
The First and Rightful Lover | 472 |
Delirium | 489 |
The Preliminary Investigation | 505 |
The Beginning of Perhotins Official Career | 507 |
The Alarm | 513 |
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A Lady of Little Faith | 55 |
So Be It So Be | 62 |
Why Is Such a Man Alive? | 70 |
A Young Man Bent on a Career | 80 |
The Scandalous Scene | 88 |
The Sensualists | 99 |
In the Servants Quarters | 101 |
Lizaveta | 106 |
The Confession of a Passionate Heartin Verse | 109 |
The Confession of a Passionate Heartin Anecdote | 118 |
The Confession of a Passionate HeartHeels | 126 |
Smerdyakov | 134 |
The Controversy | 139 |
Over the Brandy xvii 5 8 | 145 |
The Sensualists | 152 |
Both Together | 158 |
11 | 169 |
Father Ferapont | 181 |
At His Fathers | 191 |
At the Hohlakovs | 200 |
A Laceration in the Cottage | 216 |
And in the Open Air | 224 |
The Engagement | 237 |
Smerdyakov with a Guitar | 247 |
The Brothers Make Friends | 254 |
Rebellion | 263 |
The Grand Inquisitor | 273 |
For Awhile a Very Obscure One | 294 |
Its Always Worth While Speaking to a Clever Man | 304 |
Father Zossima and His Visitors | 315 |
Recollections of Father Zossimas Youth Before He Became | 329 |
24 | 345 |
Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima | 349 |
PART THREE | 365 |
Alyosha | 367 |
The Breath of Corruption | 369 |
A Critical Moment | 381 |
An Onion | 387 |
39 | 404 |
Cana of Galilee | 405 |
Mitya | 411 |
Kuzma Samsonov | 413 |
Lyagavy | 424 |
GoldMines | 431 |
The Sufferings of a Soul The First Ordeal | 520 |
The Second Ordeal | 529 |
The Third Ordeal | 536 |
The Prosecutor Catches Mitya | 548 |
Mityas Great Secret Received with Hisses | 556 |
The Evidence of the Witnesses The Babe | 567 |
They Carry Mitya Away | 577 |
PART FOUR | 583 |
The Boys | 585 |
Kolya Krassotkin | 587 |
Children | 592 |
The Schoolboy | 598 |
The Lost Dog | 606 |
By Ilushas Bedside | 613 |
Precocity | 629 |
Ilusha | 636 |
Ivan | 641 |
At Grushenkas | 643 |
The Injured Foot | 652 |
A Little Demon | 662 |
A Hymn and a Secret | 669 |
Not You Not You | 682 |
The First Interview with Smerdyakov | 688 |
The Second Visit to Smerdyakov | 698 |
The Third and Last Interview with Smerdyakov | 707 |
The Devil Ivans Nightmare | 722 |
It Was He Who Said That | 740 |
A Judicial Error | 747 |
The Fatal Day | 749 |
Dangerous Witnesses | 755 |
The Medical Experts and a Pound of Nuts | 765 |
Fortune Smiles on Mitya | 770 |
A Sudden Catastrophe | 780 |
The Prosecutors Speech Sketches of Character | 789 |
An Historical Survey | 798 |
A Treatise on Smerdyakov | 803 |
The Galloping Troika The End of the Prosecutors Speech | 813 |
The Speech for the Defence An Argument That Cuts Both Ways | 824 |
And There Was No Murder Either | 834 |
A Corrupter of Thought | 842 |
The Peasants Stand Firm | 849 |
88 | 851 |
Plans for Mityas Escape | 859 |
Ilushas Funeral The Speech at the Stone | 871 |
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Common terms and phrases
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