The Brothers Karamazov: Introduction by Malcolm JonesDostoevsky’s greatest novel is a story of murder told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s final novel, published just before his death in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between a larger-than-life father and his three very different sons. The author's towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues—brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality—that made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-century Russia. This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky—the definitive version in English—magnificently captures the rich and subtle energies of Dostoevsky’s masterpiece." Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman’s Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times. |
Contents
Second Marriage Second Children | 3 |
The Third Son Alyosha | 18 |
Elders | 25 |
They Arrive at the Monastery | 34 |
The Old Buffoon | 38 |
Women of Faith | 46 |
A Lady of Little Faith | 53 |
So Be It So Be | 59 |
The Former and Indisputable One | 416 |
Delirium | 432 |
The Start of the Official Perkhotins Career | 445 |
The Alarm | 451 |
The Souls Journey through Torments The First | 457 |
The Second Torment | 465 |
The Third Torment | 472 |
The Prosecutor Catches Mitya | 482 |
Why Is Such a Man Alive | 67 |
A SeminaristCareerist | 76 |
Sensualists | 79 |
In the Servants Quarters | 92 |
Stinking Lizaveta | 96 |
The Confession of an Ardent Heart In Verse | 100 |
The Confession of an Ardent Heart In Anecdotes | 108 |
The Confession of an Ardent Heart Heels Up | 115 |
Smerdyakov | 122 |
Disputation | 127 |
Over the Cognac | 132 |
The Sensualists | 138 |
The Two Together | 143 |
One More Ruined Reputation | 153 |
PART II | 161 |
Father Ferapont | 163 |
At His Fathers | 172 |
3 | 176 |
At the Khokhlakovs | 180 |
Strain in the Drawing Room | 186 |
Strain in the Cottage | 196 |
And in the Fresh Air | 203 |
A Betrothal | 213 |
Smerdyakov with a Guitar | 222 |
The Brothers Get Acquainted | 228 |
Rebellion | 236 |
The Grand Inquisitor | 246 |
A Rather Obscure One for the Moment | 265 |
Its Always Interesting to Talk with an Intelligent Man | 275 |
The Elder Zosima and His Visitors | 283 |
From the Life of the Hieromonk and Elder Zosima Departed in God Composed from His Own Words by Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov Biographic... | 287 |
b Of Holy Scripture in the Life of Father Zosima | 290 |
c Recollections of the Adolescence and Youth of the Elder Zosima While Still in the World The Duel | 295 |
12 | 309 |
From Talks and Homilies of the Elder Zosima | 313 |
The Odor of Corruption | 327 |
An Opportune Moment | 338 |
Cana of Galilee | 359 |
Lyagavy | 373 |
Gold Mines | 380 |
In the Dark | 390 |
Here I Come | 409 |
Mityas Great Secret Met with Hisses | 489 |
The Evidence of the Witnesses The Wee One | 500 |
Mitya Is Taken Away | 508 |
PART IV | 513 |
Kolya Krasotkin | 515 |
Kids | 519 |
A Schoolboy | 525 |
Zhuchka | 532 |
At Ilyushas Bedside | 538 |
Precocity | 553 |
Ilyusha | 559 |
At Grushenkas | 563 |
An Ailing Little Foot | 571 |
A Little Demon | 580 |
A Hymn and a Secret | 586 |
Not You Not You | 598 |
The First Meeting with Smerdyakov | 603 |
The Second Visit to Smerdyakov | 612 |
The Third and Last Meeting with Smerdyakov | 620 |
The Devil Ivan Fyodorovichs Nightmare | 634 |
He Said That | 650 |
The Fatal Day | 656 |
Dangerous Witnesses | 662 |
Medical Expertise and One Pound of Nuts | 670 |
Fortune Smiles on Mitya | 675 |
A Sudden Catastrophe | 684 |
The Prosecutors Speech Characterizations | 693 |
A Historical Survey | 701 |
A Treatise on Smerdyakov | 706 |
Psychology at Full Steam The Galloping Troika The Finale of the Prosecutors Speech | 715 |
The Defense Attorneys Speech A Stick with Two Ends | 725 |
There Was No Money There Was No Robbery | 729 |
An Adulterer of Thought | 741 |
Our Peasants Stood Up for Themselves | 748 |
Plans to Save Mitya | 757 |
Ilyushechkas Funeral The Speech at the Stone | 768 |
18 | 780 |
25 | 781 |
38 | 784 |
84 | 793 |
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