Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
List of Characters
From the Author
PART I
BOOK I: A NICE LITTLE FAMILY
Chapter 1: Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov
Chapter 2: The First Son Sent Packing
Chapter 3: Second Marriage, Second Children
Chapter 4: The Third Son, Alyosha
Chapter 5: Elders
BOOK II: AN INAPPROPRIATE GATHERING
Chapter 1: They Arrive at the Monastery
Chapter 2: The Old Buffoon
Chapter 3: Women of Faith
Chapter 4: A Lady of Little Faith
Chapter 5: So Be It! So Be It!
Chapter 6: Why Is Such a Man Alive!
Chapter 7: A Seminarist-Careerist
Chapter 8: Scandal
BOOK III: THE SENSUALISTS
Chapter 1: In the Servants’ Quarters
Chapter 2: Stinking Lizaveta
Chapter 3: The Confession of an Ardent Heart. In Verse
Chapter 4: The Confession of an Ardent Heart. In Anecdotes
Chapter 5: The Confession of an Ardent Heart. “Heels Up”
Chapter 6: Smerdyakov
Chapter 7: Disputation
Chapter 8: Over the Cognac
Chapter 9: The Sensualists
Chapter 10: The Two Together
Chapter 11: One More Ruined Reputation
PART II
BOOK IV: STRAINS
Chapter 1: Father Ferapont
Chapter 2: At His Father’s
Chapter 3: He Gets Involved with Schoolboys
Chapter 4: At the Khokhlakovs’
Chapter 5: Strain in the Drawing Room
Chapter 6: Strain in the Cottage
Chapter 7: And in the Fresh Air
BOOK V: PRO AND CONTRA
Chapter 1: A Betrothal
Chapter 2: Smerdyakov with a Guitar
Chapter 3: The Brothers Get Acquainted :
Chapter 4: Rebellion
Chapter 5: The Grand Inquisitor
Chapter 6: A Rather Obscure One for the Moment
Chapter 7: “It’s Always Interesting to Talk with an Intelligent Man”
BOOK VI: THE RUSSIAN MONK
Chapter 1: The Elder Zosima and His Visitors
Chapter 2: From the Life of the Hieromonk and Elder Zosima,
Chapter 3
PART III
BOOK VIII: MITYA
Chapter 1: Kuzma Samsonov
Chapter 2: Lyagavy
Chapter 3: Gold Mines
Chapter 4: In the Dark
Chapter 5: A Sudden Decision
Chapter 6: Here I Come!
Chapter 7: The Former and Indisputable One
Chapter 8: Delirium
Chapter 1: The Start of the Official Perkhotin’s Career
Chapter 2: The Alarm
Chapter 3: The Soul’s Journey through Torments. The First Torment
Chapter 4: The Second Torment
Chapter 5: The Third Torment
Chapter 6: The Prosecutor Catches Mitya
Chapter 7: Mitya’s Great Secret. Met with Hisses
Chapter 8: The Evidence of the Witnesses. The Wee One
Chapter 9: Mitya Is Taken Away
PART IV
BOOK X: BOYS
Chapter 1: Kolya Krasotkin
Chapter 2: Kids
Chapter 3: A Schoolboy
Chapter 4: Zhuchka
Chapter 5: At Ilyusha’s Bedside
Chapter 6: Precocity
Chapter 7: Ilyusha
Chapter 1: At Grushenka’s
Chapter 2: An Ailing Little Foot
Chapter 3: A Little Demon
Chapter 4: A Hymn and a Secret
Chapter 5: Not You! Not You!
Chapter 6: The First Meeting with Smerdyakov
Chapter 7: The Second Visit to Smerdyakov
Chapter 8: The Third and Last Meeting with Smerdyakov
Chapter 9: The Devil. Ivan Fyodorovich’s Nightmare
Chapter 10: “He Said That!”
Chapter 1: The Fatal Day
Chapter 2: Dangerous Witnesses
Chapter 3: Medical Expertise and One Pound of Nuts
Chapter 4: Fortune Smiles on Mitya
Chapter 5: A Sudden Catastrophe
Chapter 6: The Prosecutor’s Speech. Characterizations
Chapter 7: A Historical Survey
Chapter 8: A Treatise on Smerdyakov
Chapter 9: Psychology at Full Steam. The Galloping Troika. The Finale of the Prosecutor’s Speech
Chapter 10: The Defense Attorney’s Speech. A Stick with Two Ends
Chapter 11: There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery
Chapter 12: And There Was No Murder Either
Chapter 13: An Adulterer of Thought
Chapter 14: Our Peasants Stood Up for Themselves
EPILOGUE
NOTES
The Brothers Karamazov
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
Translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
© 1992
ISBN: 0679410031
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