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The Brothers Karamazov

Part I.................................................................................................................................... 5
Book I: The History of a Family..................................................................................... 5
1. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov ............................................................................... 5
2. He Gets Rid of His Eldest Son................................................................................ 8
3. The Second Marriage and the Second Family ...................................................... 11
4. The Third Son, Alyosha........................................................................................ 16

5. Elders .................................................................................................................... 22

Book II: An Unfortunate Gathering.............................................................................. 29
1. They Arrive at the Monastery ............................................................................... 29
2. The Old Buffoon ................................................................................................... 34

3. Peasant Women Who Have Faith ......................................................................... 41
4. A Lady of Little Faith ........................................................................................... 48
5. So Be It! So Be It!................................................................................................. 55
6. Why Is Such a Man Alive? ................................................................................... 63
7. A Young Man Bent on a Career ........................................................................... 72

8. The Scandalous Scene........................................................................................... 80

Book III: The Sensualists.............................................................................................. 88
1. In the Servants' Quarters ....................................................................................... 88
2. Lizaveta................................................................................................................. 93

3. The Confession of a Passionate Heart -- in Verse ................................................ 96
4. The Confession of a Passionate Heart -- In Anecdote ........................................ 104
5. The Confession of a Passionate Heart -- "Heels Up" ......................................... 111
6. Smerdyakov ........................................................................................................ 119
7. The Controversy.................................................................................................. 124

8. Over the Brandy.................................................................................................. 129
9. The Sensualists.................................................................................................... 136
10. Both Together ................................................................................................... 142
11. Another Reputation Ruined .............................................................................. 152

Part II .............................................................................................................................. 159
Book IV: Lacerations.................................................................................................. 159
1. Father Ferapont ................................................................................................... 159
2. At His Father's .................................................................................................... 168
3. A Meeting with the Schoolboys.......................................................................... 173

4. At the Hohlakovs'................................................................................................ 178
5. A Laceration in the Drawing-Room ................................................................... 184
6. A Laceration in the Cottage ................................................................................ 193
7. And in the Open Air............................................................................................ 200
Book V: Pro and Contra.............................................................................................. 208
1. The Engagement ................................................................................................. 208

2. Smerdyakov with a Guitar .................................................................................. 218
3. The Brothers Make Friends ................................................................................ 225
4. Rebellion ............................................................................................................. 233
5. The Grand Inquisitor........................................................................................... 242
6. For Awhile a Very Obscure One ........................................................................ 257

7. "It's Always Worth While Speaking to a Clever Man"....................................... 266

Book VI: The Russian Monk ...................................................................................... 273
1. Father Zossima and His Visitors......................................................................... 273
2. Recollections of Father Zossima's Youth ........................................................... 285

3. Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima ........................................... 304

Part III ............................................................................................................................. 315
Book VII: Alyosha...................................................................................................... 315
1. The Breath of Corruption.................................................................................... 315

2. A Critical Moment .............................................................................................. 326
3. An Onion............................................................................................................. 332
4. Cana of Galilee ................................................................................................... 348

Book VIII: Mitya ........................................................................................................ 353
1. Kuzma Samsonov ............................................................................................... 353
2. Lyagavy............................................................................................................... 362
3. Gold Mines.......................................................................................................... 369
4. In the Dark .......................................................................................................... 380
5. A Sudden Resolution .......................................................................................... 385
6. "I Am Coming, Too!" ......................................................................................... 401
7. The First and Rightful Lover .............................................................................. 409
8. Delirium .............................................................................................................. 427

Book IX: The Preliminary Investigation..................................................................... 440
1. The Beginning of Perhotin's Official Career ...................................................... 440
2. The Alarm ........................................................................................................... 446
3. The Sufferings of a Soul - The First Ordeal ....................................................... 452
4. The Second Ordeal.............................................................................................. 460
5. The Third Ordeal................................................................................................. 467
6. The Prosecutor Catches Mitya ............................................................................ 479
7. Mitya's Great Secret Received with Hisses ........................................................ 487
8. The Evidence of the Witnesses. The Babe.......................................................... 498
9. They Carry Mitya Away ..................................................................................... 507

Part IV............................................................................................................................. 511
Book X: The Boys ...................................................................................................... 511
1. Kolya Krassotkin ................................................................................................ 511
2. Children............................................................................................................... 516

3. The Schoolboy .................................................................................................... 522
4. The Lost Dog ...................................................................................................... 531

5. By Ilusha's Bedside............................................................................................. 537
6. Precocity ............................................................................................................. 551
7. Ilusha................................................................................................................... 558

Book XI: Ivan ............................................................................................................. 562
1. At Grushenka's.................................................................................................... 562
2. The Injured Foot ................................................................................................. 571
3. A Little Demon ................................................................................................... 580
4. A Hymn and a Secret .......................................................................................... 587
5. Not You, Not You! ............................................................................................. 599

6. The First Interview with Smerdyakov ................................................................ 606
7. The Second Visit to Smerdyakov ....................................................................... 615
8. The Third and Last Interview with Smerdyakov ................................................ 624
9. The Devil. Ivan's Nightmare............................................................................... 639
10. "It Was He Who Said That".............................................................................. 655

Book XII: A Judicial Error ......................................................................................... 660
1. The Fatal Day...................................................................................................... 660
2. Dangerous Witnesses.......................................................................................... 666
3. The Medical Experts and a Pound of Nuts ......................................................... 675

4. Fortune Smiles on Mitya..................................................................................... 680
5. A Sudden Catastrophe......................................................................................... 689
6. The Prosecutor's Speech. Sketches of Character ................................................ 698
7. An Historical Survey........................................................................................... 706
8. A Treatise on Smerdyakov.................................................................................. 710
9. The Galloping Troika. The End of the Prosecutor's Speech............................... 718
10. The Speech for the Defence. An Argument that Cuts Both Ways.................... 728
11. There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery............................................... 732
12. And There Was No Murder Either.................................................................... 737
13. A Corrupter of Thought .................................................................................... 743
14. The Peasants Stand Firm................................................................................... 749

Epilogue .......................................................................................................................... 755

Part I