The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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       Title: The Brothers Karamazov

       Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

       Release Date: February 12, 2009 [Ebook #28054] Language: English

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       ***START OF THE PROJECT EBOOK THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV*** The Brothers Karamazov

       Translated from the Russian of

       Fyodor Dostoyevsky by Constance Garnett The Lowell Press

       New York

       Contents

       Part I

       Book I. The History Of A Family Chapter I. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov Chapter II. He Gets Rid Of His Eldest Son

       Chapter III. The Second Marriage And The Second Family

       Chapter IV. The Third Son, Alyosha

       Chapter V. Elders

       Book II. An Unfortunate Gathering Chapter I. They Arrive At The Monastery Chapter II. The Old Buffoon

       Chapter III. Peasant Women Who Have Faith

       Chapter IV. A Lady Of Little Faith

       Chapter V. So Be It! So Be It!

       Chapter VI. Why Is Such A Man Alive? Chapter VII. A Young Man Bent On A Career Chapter VIII. The Scandalous Scene

       Book III. The Sensualists

       Chapter I. In The Servants' Quarters

       Chapter II. Lizaveta

       Chapter III. The Confession Of A Passionate Heart--In Verse Chapter IV. The Confession Of A Passionate Heart--In Anecdote Chapter V. The Confession Of A Passionate Heart--"Heels Up" Chapter VI. Smerdyakov

       Chapter VII. The Controversy Chapter VIII. Over The Brandy Chapter IX. The Sensualists Chapter X. Both Together

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       Chapter XI. Another Reputation Ruined

       Part II

       Book IV. Lacerations Chapter I. Father Ferapont Chapter II. At His Father's

       Chapter III. A Meeting With The Schoolboys

       Chapter IV. At The Hohlakovs'

       Chapter V. A Laceration In The Drawing-Room Chapter VI. A Laceration In The Cottage Chapter VII. And In The Open Air

       Book V. Pro And Contra

       Chapter I. The Engagement

       Chapter II. Smerdyakov With A Guitar Chapter III. The Brothers Make Friends Chapter IV. Rebellion

       Chapter V. The Grand Inquisitor

       Chapter VI. For Awhile A Very Obscure One

       Chapter VII. "It's Always Worth While Speaking To A Clever Man" Book VI. The Russian Monk

       Chapter I. Father Zossima And His Visitors

       Chapter II. The Duel

       Chapter III. Conversations And Exhortations Of Father Zossima

       Part III

       Book VII. Alyosha

       Chapter I. The Breath Of Corruption Chapter II. A Critical Moment Chapter III. An Onion

       Chapter IV. Cana Of Galilee

       Book VIII. Mitya

       Chapter I. Kuzma Samsonov

       Chapter II. Lyagavy Chapter III. Gold-Mines Chapter IV. In The Dark

       Chapter V. A Sudden Resolution

       Chapter VI. "I Am Coming, Too!"

       Chapter VII. The First And Rightful Lover

       Chapter VIII. Delirium

       Book IX. The Preliminary Investigation

       Chapter I. The Beginning Of Perhotin's Official Career

       Chapter II. The Alarm

       Chapter III. The Sufferings Of A Soul, The First Ordeal

       Chapter IV. The Second Ordeal

       Chapter V. The Third Ordeal

       Chapter VI. The Prosecutor Catches Mitya

       Chapter VII. Mitya's Great Secret. Received With Hisses Chapter VIII. The Evidence Of The Witnesses. The Babe Chapter IX. They Carry Mitya Away

       Part IV

       Book X. The Boys

       Chapter I. Kolya Krassotkin

       Chapter II. Children Chapter III. The Schoolboy Chapter IV. The Lost Dog Chapter V. By Ilusha's Bedside Chapter VI. Precocity

       Chapter VII. Ilusha

       Book XI. Ivan

       Chapter I. At Grushenka's

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       Chapter II. The Injured Foot Chapter III. A Little Demon Chapter IV. A Hymn And A Secret Chapter V. Not You, Not You!

       Chapter VI. The First Interview With Smerdyakov

       Chapter VII. The Second Visit To Smerdyakov

       Chapter VIII. The Third And Last Interview With Smerdyakov

       Chapter IX. The Devil. Ivan's Nightmare Chapter X. "It Was He Who Said That" Book XII. A Judicial Error

       Chapter I. The Fatal Day

       Chapter II. Dangerous Witnesses

       Chapter III. The Medical Experts And A Pound Of Nuts

       Chapter IV. Fortune Smiles On Mitya

       Chapter V. A Sudden Catastrophe

       Chapter VI. The Prosecutor's Speech. Sketches Of Character

       Chapter VII. An Historical Survey

       Chapter VIII. A Treatise On Smerdyakov

       Chapter IX. The Galloping Troika. The End Of The Prosecutor's Speech. Chapter X. The Speech For The Defense. An Argument That Cuts Both Ways Chapter XI. There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery

       Chapter XII. And There Was No Murder Either

       Chapter XIII. A Corrupter Of Thought Chapter XIV. The Peasants Stand Firm Epilogue

       Chapter I. Plans For Mitya's Escape

       Chapter II. For A Moment The Lie Becomes Truth Chapter III. Ilusha's Funeral. The Speech At The Stone Footnotes

       [pg 001] Part I

       Book I. The History Of A Family

       Chapter I. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov

       Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a land owner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place. For the present I will only say that this "landowner"--for so we used to call him, although he hardly spent a day of his life on his own estate--was a strange type, yet one pretty frequently to be met with, a type abject and vicious and

       at the same time senseless. But he was one of those senseless persons who are very well capable of looking after their worldly affairs, and, apparently, after nothing else. Fyodor Pavlovitch, for instance, began with next to nothing; his estate was of the smallest; he ran to dine at other men's tables, and fastened on them as a toady, yet at his death it appeared that he had a hundred thousand roubles in hard cash. At the same time, he was all his life one of the most senseless, fantastical fellows in the whole district. I repeat, it was not stupidity--the majority of these fantastical fellows are shrewd and intelligent enough--but just senselessness, and a peculiar national form of it.

       He was married twice, and had three sons, the eldest, Dmitri, by his first wife, and two, Ivan and Alexey, by his second. Fyodor Pavlovitch's first wife, Adelaida Ivanovna, belonged