The Brothers KaramazovIn 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist, Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosha, the mystic; and twisted, cunning Smerdyakov, the bastard child. Frequently lurid, nightmarish, always brilliant, the novel plunges the reader into a sordid love triangle, a pathological obsession, and a gripping courtroom drama. But throughout the whole, Dostoevsky searhes for the truth--about man, about life, about the existence of God. A terrifying answer to man's eternal questions, this monumental work remains the crowning achievement of perhaps the finest novelist of all time. |
Contents
Smerdyakov and His Guitar | |
The Brothers Get Acquainted | |
Rebellion | |
The Grand Inquisitor | |
Still Unclear | |
Its Always Rewarding to Talk to a Clever | |
A RUSSIAN MONK | |
From the Life of the Deceased Monk and Priest the Elder | |
Women of Great Faith | |
A Lady of Little Faith | |
So It Shall Be and So Be | |
Why Should Such a Man Live? | |
A Careerconscious Divinity Student | |
A Scandalous Scene | |
THE SENSUALISTS 1 In the Servants Quarters | |
Reeking Lizaveta | |
The Confession of an Ardent Heart in Verse | |
The Confession of an Ardent Heart in Prose | |
Head over Heels | |
Smerdyakov | |
The Debate | |
Over Brandy | |
The Sensualists | |
Two Women Meet | |
One More Reputation Ruined | |
PART | |
TORMENT 1 Father Ferapont | |
Alyosha in His Fathers House | |
Alyosha Gets Involved with Schoolboys | |
At the Khokhlakovs | |
Heartbreak in the Drawing Room | |
Heartbreak in a Hovel | |
Heartbreak Outdoors | |
PRO AND CONTRA | |
B The Holy Bible in Father Zosimas Life | |
Reminiscences of Elder Zosimas Worldly Youth | |
The Mysterious Visitor | |
Some Thoughts and Teachings of the Elder Zosima | |
ALYOSHA The Smell of Decay | |
The Crucial Moment | |
One Onion | |
Cana of Galilee | |
MITYA 1 Kuzma Samsonov | |
The Hound | |
The Gold Mines | |
In the Dark | |
A Sudden Resolution | |
Im Coming | |
The First and Rightful | |
Delirium | |
PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION 1 Peter Perkhotin Starts Out on His Career as Civil Servant | |
Alarm | |
The First Ordeal | |
The Second Ordeal | |
The Third Ordeal | |
The Prosecutor Catches Mitya | |
Mitya Reveals His Secret and Is Heckled | |
The Testimony of the Witnesses The Babe | |
They Take Him Away | |
PART FOUR | |
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