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The Brothers Karamazov

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

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Cover: Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1872), oil on canvas by Vasily Perov (1834-1882) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1882)

The Brothers Karamazov, also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the sixteenth and final novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880. Dostoevsky died less than four months after its publication. It has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov
  2. 2: He Gets Rid Of His Eldest Son
  3. 3: The Second Marriage And The Second Family
  4. 4: The Third Son, Alyosha
  5. 5: Elders
  6. 6: They Arrive At The Monastery
  7. 7: The Old Buffoon
  8. 8: Peasant Women Who Have Faith
  9. 9: A Lady Of Little Faith
  10. 10: So Be It! So Be It!
  11. 11: Why Is Such A Man Alive?
  12. 12: A Young Man Bent On A Career
  13. 13: The Scandalous Scene
  14. 14: In The Servants’ Quarters
  15. 15: Lizaveta
  16. 16: The Confession Of A Passionate Heart—In Verse
  17. 17: The Confession Of A Passionate Heart—In Anecdote
  18. 18: Chapter 18
  19. 19: Smerdyakov
  20. 20: The Controversy
  21. 21: Over The Brandy
  22. 22: The Sensualists
  23. 23: Both Together
  24. 24: Another Reputation Ruined
  25. 25: Father Ferapont
  26. 26: At His Father’s
  27. 27: A Meeting With The Schoolboys
  28. 28: At The Hohlakovs’
  29. 29: A Laceration In The Drawing-Room
  30. 30: A Laceration In The Cottage
  31. 31: And In The Open Air
  32. 32: The Engagement
  33. 33: Smerdyakov With A Guitar
  34. 34: The Brothers Make Friends
  35. 35: Rebellion
  36. 36: The Grand Inquisitor
  37. 37: For Awhile A Very Obscure One
  38. 38: “It’s Always Worth While Speaking To A Clever Man”
  39. 39: Father Zossima And His Visitors
  40. 40: The Duel
  41. 41: Conversations And Exhortations Of Father Zossima
  42. 42: The Breath Of Corruption
  43. 43: A Critical Moment
  44. 44: An Onion
  45. 45: Cana Of Galilee
  46. 46: Kuzma Samsonov
  47. 47: Lyagavy
  48. 48: Gold-Mines
  49. 49: In The Dark
  50. 50: A Sudden Resolution
  51. 51: “I Am Coming, Too!”
  52. 52: The First And Rightful Lover
  53. 53: Delirium
  54. 54: The Beginning Of Perhotin’s Official Career
  55. 55: The Alarm
  56. 56: The Sufferings Of A Soul, The First Ordeal
  57. 57: The Second Ordeal
  58. 58: The Third Ordeal
  59. 59: The Prosecutor Catches Mitya
  60. 60: Mitya’s Great Secret. Received With Hisses
  61. 61: The Evidence Of The Witnesses. The Babe
  62. 62: They Carry Mitya Away
  63. 63: Kolya Krassotkin
  64. 64: Children
  65. 65: The Schoolboy
  66. 66: The Lost Dog
  67. 67: By Ilusha’s Bedside
  68. 68: Precocity
  69. 69: Ilusha
  70. 70: At Grushenka’s
  71. 71: The Injured Foot
  72. 72: A Little Demon
  73. 73: A Hymn And A Secret
  74. 74: Not You, Not You!
  75. 75: The First Interview With Smerdyakov
  76. 76: The Second Visit To Smerdyakov
  77. 77: The Third And Last Interview With Smerdyakov
  78. 78: The Devil. Ivan’s Nightmare
  79. 79: “It Was He Who Said That”
  80. 80: The Fatal Day
  81. 81: Dangerous Witnesses
  82. 82: The Medical Experts And A Pound Of Nuts
  83. 83: Fortune Smiles On Mitya
  84. 84: A Sudden Catastrophe
  85. 85: The Prosecutor’s Speech. Sketches Of Character
  86. 86: An Historical Survey
  87. 87: A Treatise On Smerdyakov
  88. 88: The Galloping Troika. The End Of The Prosecutor’s Speech
  89. 89: The Speech For The Defense. An Argument That Cuts Both Ways
  90. 90: There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery
  91. 91: And There Was No Murder Either
  92. 92: A Corrupter Of Thought
  93. 93: The Peasants Stand Firm
  94. 94: Plans For Mitya’s Escape
  95. 95: For A Moment The Lie Becomes Truth
  96. 96: Ilusha’s Funeral. The Speech At The Stone