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THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV

Translated from the Russian of

FÉODOR DOSTOIEVSKY

by Constance Garnett

THE LOWELL PRESS

Publishers

New York

CONTENTS

PART I

BOOK I. THE HISTORY OF A FAMILY

I. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov

II. He Gets Rid of His Eldest Son

III. The Second Marriage, and the Second Family

IV. The Third Son, Alyosha

V. Elders

BOOK II. AN UNFORTUNATE GATHERING

I. They Arrive at the Monastery

II. The Old Buffoon

III. Peasant Women Who Have Faith

IV. A Lady of Little Faith

V. So Be It! So Be It!

VI. Why Is Such a Man Alive?

VII. A Young Man Bent on a Career

VIII. The Scandalous Scene

BOOK III. THE SENSUALISTS

I. In the Servants’ Quarters

II. Lizaveta

III. The Confession of a Passionate Heart—in Verse

IV. The Confession of a Passionate Heart—in Anecdote

V. The Confession of a Passionate Heart—“Heels Up”

VI. Smerdyakov

VII. The Controversy

VIII. Over the Brandy

IX. The Sensualists

X. Both Together

XI. Another Reputation Ruined

PART II

BOOK IV. LACERATIONS

I. Father Ferapont

II. At His Father’s

III. A Meeting with the Schoolboys

IV. At the Hohlakovs’

V. A Laceration in the Drawing-room

VI. A Laceration in the Cottage

VII. And in the Open Air

BOOK V. PRO AND CONTRA

I. The Engagement

II. Smerdyakov with a Guitar

III. The Brothers Make Friends

IV. Rebellion

V. The Grand Inquisitor

VI. For Awhile a Very Obscure One

VII. “It’s Always Worth While Speaking to a Clever Man”

BOOK VI. THE RUSSIAN MONK

I. Father Zossima and His Visitors

II. Recollections of Father Zossima’s Youth Before He Became a Monk. The Duel

III. Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima

PART III

BOOK VII. ALYOSHA

I. The Breath of Corruption

II. A Critical Moment

III. An Onion

IV. Cana of Galilee

BOOK VIII. MITYA

I. Kuzma Samsonov

II. Lyagavy

III. Gold Mines

IV. In the Dark

V. A Sudden Resolution

VI. “I am Coming Too!”

VII. The First and Rightful Lover

VIII. Delirium

BOOK IX. THE PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION

I. The Beginning of Perhotin’s Official Career

II. The Alarm

III. The Sufferings of a Soul. The First Ordeal

IV. The Second Ordeal

V. The Third Ordeal

VI. The Prosecutor Catches Mitya

VII. Mitya’s Great Secret

VIII. The Evidence of the Witnesses. The Babe

IX. They Carry Mitya Away

PART IV

BOOK X. THE BOYS

I. Kolya Krassotkin

II. Children

III. The Schoolboy

IV. The Lost Dog

V. By Ilusha’s Bedside

VI. Precocity

VII. Ilusha

BOOK XI. IVAN

I. At Grushenka’s

II. The Injured Foot

III. A Little Demon

IV. A Hymn and a Secret

V. Not You, Not You!

VI. The First Interview with Smerdyakov

VII. The Second Visit to Smerdyakov

VIII. The Third and Last Interview with Smerdyakov

IX. The Devil. Ivan’s Nightmare

X. “It Was He Who Said That”

BOOK XII. A JUDICIAL ERROR

I. The Fatal Day

II. Dangerous Witnesses

III. The Medical Experts and a Pound of Nuts

IV. Fortune Smiles on Mitya

V. A Sudden Catastrophe

VI. The Prosecutor’s Speech. Sketches of Character

VII. An Historical Survey

VIII. A Treatise ...