Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov

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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

Part 1 The History of a Family Part 1 The History of a Family

Chapter 1 Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov

Chapter 2 He Gets Rid of His Eldest Son

Chapter 3 The Second Marriage and the Second Family

Chapter 4 The Third Son, Alyosha

Chapter 5 Elders

Part 2 An Unfortunate Gathering

Chapter 1 They Arrive at the Monastery

Chapter 2 The Old Buffoon

Chapter 3 Peasant Women Who Have 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 Young Man Bent on a Career

Chapter 8 The Scandalous Scene

Part 3 The Sensualists

Chapter 1 In the Servants' Quarters

Chapter 2 Lizaveta

Chapter 3 The Confession of a Passionate Heart- in Verse

Chapter 4 The Confession of a Passionate Heart- In Anecdote

Chapter 5 The Confession of a Passionate Heart- "Heels Up"

Chapter 6 Smerdyakov

Chapter 7 The Controversy

Chapter 8 Over the Brandy

Chapter 9 The Sensualists

Chapter 10 Both Together

Chapter 11 Another Reputation Ruined

Part 4 Lacerations

Chapter 1 Father Ferapont

Chapter 2 At His Father's

Chapter 3 A Meeting with the Schoolboys

Chapter 4 At the Hohlakovs'

Chapter 5 A Laceration in the Drawing-Room

Chapter 6 A Laceration in the Cottage

Chapter 7 And in the Open Air

Part 5 Pro and Contra

Chapter 1 The Engagement

Chapter 2 Smerdyakov with a Guitar

Chapter 3 The Brothers Make Friends

Chapter 4 Rebellion

Chapter 5 The Grand Inquisitor

Chapter 6 For Awhile a Very Obscure One

Chapter 7 "It's Always Worth While Speaking to a Clever Man"

Part 6 The Russian Monk

Chapter 1 Father Zossima and His Visitors

Chapter 2 (c) Recollections of Father Zossima's Youth before he became a Monk. The Duel

Chapter 3 Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima

Part 7 Alyosha

Chapter 1 The Breath of Corruption

Chapter 2 A Critical Moment

Chapter 3 An Onion

Chapter 4 Cana of Galilee

Part 8 Mitya

Chapter 1 Kuzma Samsonov

Chapter 2 Lyagavy

Chapter 3 Gold Mines

Chapter 4 In the Dark

Chapter 5 A Sudden Resolution

Chapter 6 "I Am Coming, Too!"

Chapter 7 The First and Rightful Lover

Chapter 8 Delirium

Part 9 The Preliminary Investigation

Chapter 1 The Beginning of Perhotin's Official Career

Chapter 2 The Alarm

Chapter 3 The Sufferings of a Soul — The First Ordeal

Chapter 4 The Second Ordeal

Chapter 5 The Third Ordeal

Chapter 6 The Prosecutor Catches Mitya

Chapter 7 Mitya's Great Secret Received with Hisses

Chapter 8 The Evidences of the Witnesses. The Babe

Chapter 9 They Carry Mitya Away

Part 10 The Boys

Chapter 1 Kolya Krassotkin

Chapter 2 Children

Chapter 3 The Schoolboy

Chapter 4 The Lost Dog

Chapter 5 By Ilusha's Bedside

Chapter 6 Precocity

Chapter 7 Ilusha

Part 11 Ivan

Chapter 1 — At Grushenka's

Chapter 2 The Injured Foot

Chapter 3 A Little Demon

Chapter 4 A Hymn and a Secret

Chapter 5 Not You, Not You!

Chapter 6 The First Interview with Smerdyakov

Chapter 7 The Second Visit to Smerdyakov

Chapter 8 The Third and Last Interview with Smerdyakov

Chapter 9 The Devil. Ivan's Nightmare

Chapter 10 "It Was He Who Said That"

Part 12 A Judicial Error

Chapter 1 The Fatal Day

Chapter 2 Dangerous Witnesses

Chapter 3 The Medical Experts and a Pound of Nuts

Chapter 4 Fortune Smiles on Mitya

Chapter 5 A Sudden Catastrophe

Chapter 6 The Prosecutor's Speech. Sketches of Character

Chapter 7 An Historical Survey

Chapter 8 A Treatise on Smerdyakov

Chapter 9 The Galloping Troika. The End of the Prosecutor's Speech

Chapter 10 The Speech for the Defence. An Argument that Cuts Both Ways

Chapter 11 There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery

Chapter 12 And There Was No Murder Either

Chapter 13 A Corrupter of Thought

Chapter 14 The Peasants Stand Firm

Part 13 Epilogue

Chapter 1 Plans for Mitya's Escape

Chapter 2 For a Moment the Lie Becomes Truth

Chapter 3 Ilusha's Funeral. The Speech at the Stone

(Translator: Constance Garnett)

Published:1880 Categorie(s):Fiction, Literary

ALEXEY Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner 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 met with, a type abject and vicious and at the same time senseless. But he was one of those senseless persons who are very well capable of looking after their worldly affairs, and, apparently, after nothing else. Fyodor Pavlovitch, for instance, began with next to nothing; his estate was of the smallest; he ran to dine at other men's tables, and fastened on them as a toady, yet at his death it appeared that he had a hundred thousand roubles in hard cash. At the same time, he was all his life one of the most senseless, fantastical fellows in the whole district. I repeat, it was not stupidity- the majority of these fantastical fellows are shrewd and intelligent enough- but just senselessness, and a peculiar national form of it.

He was married twice, and had three sons, the eldest, Dmitri, by his first wife, and two, Ivan and Alexey, by his second. Fyodor Pavlovitch's first wife, Adelaida Ivanovna, belonged to a fairly rich and distinguished noble family, also landowners in our district, the Miusovs. How it came to pass that an heiress, who was also a beauty, and moreover one of those vigorous intelligent girls, so common in this generation, but sometimes also to be found in the last, could have married such a worthless, puny weakling, as we all called him, I won't attempt to explain. I knew a young lady of the last "romantic" generation who after some years of an enigmatic passion for a gentleman, whom she might quite easily have married at any moment, invented insuperable obstacles to their union, and ended by throwing herself one stormy night into a rather deep and rapid river from a high bank, almost a precipice, and so perished, entirely to satisfy her own caprice, and to be like Shakespeare's Ophelia. Indeed, if this precipice, a chosen and favourite spot of hers, had been less picturesque, if there had been a prosaic flat bank in its place, most likely the suicide would never have taken place. This is a fact, and probably there have been not a few similar instances in the last two or three generations. Adelaida Ivanovna Miusov's action was similarly, no doubt, an echo of other people's ideas, and was due to the irritation caused by lack of mental freedom. She wanted, perhaps, to show her feminine independence, to override class distinctions and the despotism of her family. And a pliable imagination persuaded her, we must suppose, for a brief moment, that Fyodor Pavlovitch, in spite of his parasitic position, was one of the bold and ironical spirits of that progressive epoch, though he was, in fact, an ill-natured buffoon and nothing more. What gave the marriage piquancy was that it was preceded by an elopement, and this greatly captivated Adelaida Ivanovna's fancy. Fyodor Pavlovitch's position at the time made him specially eager for any such enterprise, for he was passionately anxious to make a career in one way or another. To attach himself to a good family and obtain a dowry was an alluring prospect. As for mutual love it did not exist apparently, either in the bride or in him, in spite of Adelaida Ivanovna's beauty. This was, perhaps, a unique case of the kind in the life of Fyodor Pavlovitch, who was always of a voluptuous temper, and ready to run after any petticoat on the slightest encouragement. She seems to have been the only woman who made no particular appeal to his senses.