The Brothers KaramazovWhat is free will? Is redemption possible? Can logic help us answer moral questions? Renowned Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky tackles all of these topics and many more in this remarkable novel, widely regarded as one of the classic masterpieces of literature. Follow the Karamazov family through the travails that transpire after the murder of their father, and expand your intellectual horizons with a work that celebrated thinkers such as Einstein, Freud, and Pope Benedict XVI cite as one of their favorites. |
Contents
Chapter IV In the Dark | 757 |
Chapter V A Sudden Resolution | 768 |
Chapter VI I Am Coming Too | 800 |
Chapter VII The First and Rightful Lover | 816 |
Chapter VIII Delirium | 850 |
BOOK IX THE PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION | 876 |
Chapter I The Beginning of Perhotins Official Career | 877 |
Chapter II The Alarm | 889 |
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BOOK III THE SENSUALISTS | 171 |
Chapter I In the Servants Quarters | 172 |
Chapter II Lizaveta | 181 |
Chapter III The Confession of a Passionate HeartIn Verse | 187 |
Chapter IV The Confession of a Passionate HeartIn Anecdote | 202 |
Chapter V The Confession of a Passionate HeartHeels Up | 215 |
Chapter VI Smerdyakov | 230 |
Chapter VII The Controversy | 240 |
Chapter VIII Over the Brandy | 250 |
Chapter IX The Sensualists | 264 |
Chapter X Both Together | 276 |
Chapter XI Another Reputation Ruined | 296 |
PART II | 309 |
BOOK IV LACERATIONS | 310 |
Chapter I Father Ferapont | 311 |
Chapter II At His Fathers | 329 |
Chapter III A Meeting with the Schoolboys | 338 |
Chapter IV At the Hohlakovs | 347 |
Chapter V A Laceration in the DrawingRoom | 359 |
Chapter VI A Laceration in the Cottage | 378 |
Chapter VII And in the Open Air | 392 |
BOOK V PRO AND CONTRA | 409 |
Chapter I The Engagement | 410 |
Chapter II Smerdyakov with a Guitar | 430 |
Chapter III The Brothers Make Friends | 443 |
Chapter IV Rebellion | 459 |
Chapter V The Grand Inquisitor | 477 |
Chapter VI For Awhile a Very Obscure One | 510 |
Chapter VII Its Always Worth While Speaking to a Clever Man | 528 |
BOOK VI THE RUSSIAN MONK | 542 |
Chapter I Father Zossima and His Visitors | 543 |
Chapter II The Duel | 567 |
Chapter III Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima | 604 |
PART III | 627 |
BOOK VII ALYOSHA | 628 |
Chapter I The Breath of Corruption | 629 |
Chapter II A Critical Moment | 650 |
Chapter III An Onion | 661 |
Chapter IV Cana of Galilee | 694 |
BOOK VIII MITYA | 703 |
Chapter I Kuzma Samsonov | 704 |
Chapter II Lyagavy | 723 |
Chapter III GoldMines | 736 |
Chapter III The Sufferings of a Soul the First Ordeal | 900 |
Chapter IV The Second Ordeal | 916 |
Chapter V The Third Ordeal | 930 |
Chapter VI The Prosecutor Catches Mitya | 953 |
Chapter VII Mityas Great Secret Received with Hisses | 969 |
Chapter VIII The Evidence of the Witnesses the Babe | 991 |
Chapter IX They Carry Mitya Away | 1008 |
PART IV | 1016 |
BOOK X THE BOYS | 1017 |
Chapter I Kolya Krassotkin | 1018 |
Chapter II Children | 1027 |
Chapter III The Schoolboy | 1038 |
Chapter IV The Lost Dog | 1056 |
Chapter V By Ilushas Bedside | 1069 |
Chapter VI Precocity | 1098 |
Chapter VII Ilusha | 1111 |
BOOK XI IVAN | 1119 |
Chapter I At Grushenkas | 1120 |
Chapter II The Injured Foot | 1137 |
Chapter III A Little Demon | 1154 |
Chapter IV A Hymn and a Secret | 1168 |
Chapter V Not You Not You | 1192 |
Chapter VI The First Interview with Smerdyakov | 1205 |
Chapter VII The Second Visit to Smerdyakov | 1223 |
Chapter VIII The Third and Last Interview with Smerdyakov | 1240 |
Chapter IX The Devil Ivans Nightmare | 1269 |
Chapter X It was He Who Said that | 1301 |
BOOK XII A JUDICIAL ERROR | 1311 |
Chapter I The Fatal Day | 1312 |
Chapter II Dangerous Witnesses | 1323 |
Chapter III The Medical Experts and a Pound of Nuts | 1340 |
Chapter IV Fortune Smiles on Mitya | 1350 |
Chapter V A Sudden Catastrophe | 1367 |
Chapter VI The Prosecutors Speech Sketches of Character | 1384 |
Chapter VII An Historical Survey | 1399 |
Chapter VIII A Treatise on Smerdyakov | 1407 |
Chapter IX The Galloping Troika the End of the Prosecutors Speech | 1422 |
Chapter X The Speech for the Defense an Argument that Cuts Both Ways | 1442 |
Chapter XI There was No Money there was No Robbery | 1449 |
Chapter XII And there was No Murder Either | 1460 |
Chapter XIII A Corrupter of Thought | 1473 |
Chapter XIV The Peasants Stand Firm | 1486 |
EPILOGUE | 1498 |
Chapter I Plans for Mityas Escape | 1499 |
Chapter II For a Moment the Lie Becomes Truth | 1508 |
Chapter III Ilushas Funeral the Speech at the Stone | 1521 |
Endnotes | 1539 |
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Common terms and phrases
afraid afterwards Agrafena Alexandrovna Alexey Fyodorovitch Alyosha answer asked began believe brother Church cried Mitya dear Dmitri Fyodorovitch drunk earth elder everything eyes face Father Ferapont Father Païssy Father Zossima feeling felt Fenya forgive Fyodor Pavlovitch gentlemen girl give Grigory Grushenka hand happened haste heard heart holy honor hundred roubles Kalganov Karamazov Katerina Ivanovna kiss knew lady laughing Lise listen live looked Madame Hohlakov mamma Marfa Maximov mind minute Miüsov Mokroe monastery monk Moscow mother murder never night Nikolay Parfenovitch Obdorsk once peasant perhaps prosecutor Pyotr Alexandrovitch Pyotr Ilyitch Rakitin remember scoundrel seemed shouted Siberia silent sitting Smerdyakov smile soul speak stood strange suddenly talk tears tell Thee there's thing Thou thought three thousand to-day to-morrow told town turned understand versts voice waiting what's whole woman words yesterday young