The Brothers Karamazov

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Penguin UK, Feb 27, 2003 - Fiction - 1056 pages

'The most magnificent novel ever written' Sigmund Freud

The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, driven to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother, Smerdyakov. Dostoyevsky's dark masterwork evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur, and everyone's faith in humanity is tested.

Translated with an Introduction and notes by DAVID McDUFF

 

Contents

5
Father Ferapont
At His Fathers
He Gets Mixed Up with Schoolboys
At the Khokhlakovas
Crackup in the Drawing Room
Crackup in the Izba 7 And Out in the Fresh
PRO AND CONTRA 1 A Betrothal
The Testimony of the Witnesses The Bairn
Mitya is Taken Away
PART FOUR
THE BOYS 1 Kolya Krasotkin
Youngsters
A Schoolboy 4 Zhuchka
By Ilyushas Little
Precocious Development

Smerdyakov with a Guitar
The Brothers Become Acquainted
Mutiny
The Grand Inquisitor
One as Yet Very Indistinct
Its Always Interesting to Talk to a Clever Man
THE RUSSIAN MONK 1 The Elder Zosima and His Guests
From the Life of the Departed in God the Hieroschemonach the Elder Zosima Collated from His Own Words by Aleksey Fyodorovich Karamazov
From the Discourses and Teachings of the Elder Zosima
PART THREE
ALYOSHA
A Putrid Smell
The Right Moment
The Onion
Cana of Galilee
MITYA 1 Kuzma Samsonov
Lyagavy
The Goldmines
In the Dark
A Sudden Resolve
Here I Come
The Former and Beyond Dispute
Delirium
THE PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION 1 The Beginning of the Civil Servant Perkhotins Career
The Alarm
The Passage of a Soul Through the Torments Torment the First
Torment the Second
The Third Torment
The Public Procurator Catches Mitya
Mityas Great Secret Hissed Off the Stage
Ilyusha
BROTHER IVAN FYODOROVICH 1 At Grushenkas
An Ailing Foot
A Little Demon
A Hymn and a Secret
Not You Not You
The First Visit to Smerdyakov
The Second Visit to Smerdyakov
The Third And Final Visit to Smerdyakov
The Devil Ivan Fyodorovichs Nightmare
He Said That
A JUDICIAL ERROR 1 The Fateful
Dangerous Witnesses
The Expert Medical Examination and One Pound of Nuts
Fortune Smiles Upon Mitya
A Sudden Catastrophe
The Public Procurators Speech Characterization
A Historical Survey
A Treatise on Smerdyakov
Psychology at Full Steam The Galloping Troika The Finale of the Public Procurators Speech
The Defence Counsels Speech A Stick with Two Ends
There was No Money There was No Robbery
Nor was There Even Any Murder
An Adulterer of Thought
The Muzhiks Stand Up for Themselves
Schemes for Rescuing Mitya
For a Moment the Lie Becomes Truth
Ilyushechkas Funeral The Speech by the Stone
Notes
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author)
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk(1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came The House of the Dead (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Vremya (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed Notes from Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The major novels of his late period are The Idiot (1868), Demons(1871-2) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). He died in 1881.

David McDuff (Introducer, Translator)
David McDuff's translations for Penguin Classics include Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot, and Babel's short stories.

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