The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

By Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Translated by Constance Garnett.

Table of Contents

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

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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