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Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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PART I

Book I The History of a Family

Chapter 1 Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov

Chapter 2 He Gets Rid of His Eldest Son

Chapter 3 The Second Marriage and the Second Family

Chapter 4 The Third Son, Alyosha

Chapter 5 Elders

Book II An Unfortunate Gathering

Chapter 1 They Arrive at the Monastery

Chapter 2 The Old Buffoon

Chapter 3 Peasant Women Who Have Faith

Chapter 4 A Lady of Little Faith

Chapter 5 So Be It! So Be It!

Chapter 6 Why Is Such a Man Alive?

Chapter 7 A Young Man Bent on a Career

Chapter 8 The Scandalous Scene

Book III The Sensualists

Chapter 1 In the Servants' Quarters

Chapter 2 Lizaveta

Chapter 3 The Confession of a Passionate Heart - in Verse

Chapter 4 The Confession of a Passionate Heart - In Anecdote

Chapter 5 The Confession of a Passionate Heart - 'Heels Up'

Chapter 6 Smerdyakov

Chapter 7 The Controversy

Chapter 8 Over the Brandy

Chapter 9 The Sensualists

Chapter 10 Both Together

Chapter 11 Another Reputation Ruined

PART II

Book IV Lacerations

Chapter 1 Father Ferapont

Chapter 2 At His Father's

Chapter 3 A Meeting with the Schoolboys

Chapter 4 At the Hohlakovs'

Chapter 5 A Laceration in the Drawing-Room

Chapter 6 A Laceration in the Cottage

Chapter 7 And in the Open Air

Book V Pro and Contra

Chapter 1 The Engagement

Chapter 2 Smerdyakov with a Guitar

Chapter 3 The Brothers Make Friends

Chapter 4 Rebellion

Chapter 5 The Grand Inquisitor

Chapter 6 For Awhile a Very Obscure One

Chapter 7 It's Always Worth While Speaking to a Clever Man

Book VI The Russian Monk.

Chapter 1 Father Zossima and His Visitors

Chapter 2 (c) Recollections of Father Zossima's Youth before he became a Monk. The Duel

Chapter 3 Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima

PART III

Book VII Alyosha

Chapter 1 The Breath of Corruption

Chapter 2 A Critical Moment

Chapter 3 An Onion

Chapter 4 Cana of Galilee

Book VIII Mitya

Chapter 1 Kuzma Samsonov

Chapter 2 Lyagavy

Chapter 3 Gold Mines

Chapter 4 In the Dark

Chapter 5 A Sudden Resolution

Chapter 6 'I Am Coming, Too!'

Chapter 7 The First and Rightful Lover

Chapter 8 Delirium

Book IX The Preliminary Investigation

Chapter 1 The Beginning of Perhotin's Official Career

Chapter 2 The Alarm

Chapter 3 The Sufferings of a Soul

Chapter 4 The Second Ordeal

Chapter 5 The Third Ordeal

Chapter 6 The Prosecutor Catches Mitya

Chapter 7 Mitya's Great Secret Received with Hisses

Chapter 8 The Evidences of the Witnesses. The Babe

Chapter 9 They Carry Mitya Away

PART IV

Book X The Boys

Chapter 1 Kolya Krassotkin

Chapter 2 Children

Chapter 3 The Schoolboy

Chapter 4 The Lost Dog

Chapter 5 By Ilusha's Bedside

Chapter 6 Precocity

Chapter 7 Ilusha

Book XI Ivan

Chapter 1 At Grushenka's

Chapter 2 The Injured Foot

Chapter 3 A Little Demon

Chapter 4 A Hymn and a Secret

Chapter 5 Not You, Not You!

Chapter 6 The First Interview with Smerdyakov

Chapter 7 The Second Visit to Smerdyakov

Chapter 8 The Third and Last Interview with Smerdyakov

Chapter 9 The Devil. Ivan's Nightmare

Chapter 10 'It Was He Who Said That'

Book XII A Judicial Error

Chapter 1 The Fatal Day

Chapter 2 Dangerous Witnesses

Chapter 3 The Medical Experts and a Pound of Nuts

Chapter 4 Fortune Smiles on Mitya

Chapter 5 A Sudden Catastrophe

Chapter 6 The Prosecutor's Speech. Sketches of Character

Chapter 7 An Historical Survey

Chapter 8 A Treatise on Smerdyakov

Chapter 9 The Galloping Troika. The End of the Prosecutor's Speech

Chapter 10 The Speech for the Defence. An Argument that Cuts Both Ways

Chapter 11 There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery

Chapter 12 And There Was No Murder Either

Chapter 13 A Corrupter of Thought

Chapter 14 The Peasants Stand Firm

EPILOGUE

Chapter 1 Plans for Mitya's Escape

Chapter 2 For a Moment the Lie Becomes Truth

Chapter 3 Ilusha's Funeral. The Speech at the Stone