The Brothers Karamazov

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Random House Publishing Group, Mar 28, 2012 - Fiction - 912 pages
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide and family rivalry that embodies the moral and spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s). It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication, in 1866, of Crime and Punishment. To Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov captured the quintessence of Russian character in all its exaltation, compassion, and profligacy. Significantly, the book was on Tolstoy's bedside table when he died. Readers in every language have since accepted Dostoevsky's own evaluation of this work and have gone further by proclaiming it one of the few great novels of all ages and countries.
 
"The Brothers Karamazov stands as the culmination of Dostoevsky's art—his last, longest, richest, and most capacious book," said The Washington Post Book World.

"Nothing is outside Dostoevsky's province," observed Virginia Woolf. "Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading."
 

Contents

I Am Coming Too
464
The First and Rightful Lover
472
Delirium
489
The Beginning of Perhotins Official Career
507
The Alarm
513
The Sufferings of a Soul The First Ordeal
520
The Second Ordeal
529
The Third Ordeal
536

Why Is Such a Man Alive?
77
The Scandalous Scene
88
In the Servants Quarters
101
The Confession of a Passionate Heartin Verse
109
The Confession of a Passionate Heartin Anecdote
118
The Confession of a Passionate HeartHeels
126
Smerdyakov
134
Over the Brandy
145
Father Ferapont
181
At His Fathers
191
At the Hohlakovs
200
A Laceration in the Cottage
216
And in the Open
224
The Engagement
237
Smerdyakov with a Guitar
247
The Brothers Make Friends
254
Rebellion
263
The Grand Inquisitor
273
For Awhile a Very Obscure
295
Its Always Worth While Speaking to a Clever Man
304
Father Zossima and His Visitors
315
Recollections of Father Zossimas Youth Before He Became
329
Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima
349
Mitya
406
Kuzma Samsonov
413
Lyagavy
424
GoldMines
431
In the Dark
440
A Sudden Resolution
448
The Prosecutor Catches Mitya
548
Mityas Great Secret Received with Hisses
556
The Evidence of the Witnesses The Babe
567
They Carry Mitya Away
577
Ilusha
629
At Grushenkas
643
The Injured Foot
652
A Little Demon
662
A Hymn and a Secret
669
Not You Not You
682
The First Interview with Smerdyakov
688
The Second Visit to Smerdyakov
698
The Third and Last Interview with Smerdyakov
707
The Devil Ivans Nightmare
722
It Was He Who Said That
740
The Fatal
749
Dangerous Witnesses
755
The Medical Experts and a Pound of Nuts
770
A Sudden Catastrophe
780
The Prosecutors Speech Sketches of Character
789
An Historical Survey
798
The Speech for the Defence An Argument That Cuts Both Ways
824
And There Was No Murder Either
834
A Corrupter of Thought
842
The Peasants Stand Firm
849
Plans for Mityas Escape
859
Ilushas Funeral The Speech at the Stone
871
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Fyodor Dostoevsky's life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821, and when he died in 1881, he left a legacy of masterworks that influenced the great thinkers and writers of the Western world and immortalized him as a giant among writers of world literature.

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