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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky · Public domain text

349,619 words · about 24 h 29 min to read

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Author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881)
Language
English
Subjects
Didactic fiction, Fathers and sons › Fiction, Russia › Social life and customs › 1533-1917 › Fiction, Brothers › Fiction
Length
349,619 words · about 24 h 29 min
Sections
97 reader sections · Table of contents
Contents (97)
  1. Opening about 1 min
  2. I. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov about 6 min
  3. II. He Gets Rid Of His Eldest Son about 5 min
  4. III. The Second Marriage And The Second Family about 11 min
  5. IV. The Third Son, Alyosha about 15 min
  6. V. Elders about 15 min
  7. I. They Arrive At The Monastery about 8 min
  8. II. The Old Buffoon about 15 min
  9. III. Peasant Women Who Have Faith about 14 min
  10. IV. A Lady Of Little Faith about 13 min
  11. V. So Be It! So Be It! about 15 min
  12. VI. Why Is Such A Man Alive? about 16 min
  13. VII. A Young Man Bent On A Career about 15 min
  14. VIII. The Scandalous Scene about 15 min
  15. I. In The Servants’ Quarters about 9 min
  16. II. Lizaveta about 7 min
  17. III. The Confession Of A Passionate Heart—In Verse about 14 min
  18. IV. The Confession Of A Passionate Heart—In Anecdote about 14 min
  19. V. The Confession Of A Passionate Heart—“Heels Up” about 14 min
  20. VI. Smerdyakov about 9 min
  21. VII. The Controversy about 9 min
  22. VIII. Over The Brandy about 12 min
  23. IX. The Sensualists about 9 min
  24. X. Both Together about 19 min
  25. XI. Another Reputation Ruined about 13 min
  26. I. Father Ferapont about 17 min
  27. II. At His Father’s about 8 min
  28. III. A Meeting With The Schoolboys about 8 min
  29. IV. At The Hohlakovs’ about 10 min
  30. V. A Laceration In The Drawing-Room about 19 min
  31. VI. A Laceration In The Cottage about 14 min
  32. VII. And In The Open Air about 18 min
  33. I. The Engagement about 19 min
  34. II. Smerdyakov With A Guitar about 11 min
  35. III. The Brothers Make Friends about 16 min
  36. IV. Rebellion about 21 min
  37. V. The Grand Inquisitor about 39 min
  38. VI. For Awhile A Very Obscure One about 18 min
  39. VII. “It’s Always Worth While Speaking To A Clever Man” about 14 min
  40. I. Father Zossima And His Visitors about 27 min
  41. II. The Duel about 38 min
  42. III. Conversations And Exhortations Of Father Zossima about 26 min
  43. I. The Breath Of Corruption about 22 min
  44. II. A Critical Moment about 10 min
  45. III. An Onion about 33 min
  46. IV. Cana Of Galilee about 9 min
  47. I. Kuzma Samsonov about 20 min
  48. II. Lyagavy about 12 min
  49. III. Gold-Mines about 20 min
  50. IV. In The Dark about 10 min
  51. V. A Sudden Resolution about 26 min
  52. VI. “I Am Coming, Too!” about 13 min
  53. VII. The First And Rightful Lover about 27 min
  54. VIII. Delirium about 23 min
  55. I. The Beginning Of Perhotin’s Official Career about 12 min
  56. II. The Alarm about 11 min
  57. III. The Sufferings Of A Soul, The First Ordeal about 15 min
  58. IV. The Second Ordeal about 13 min
  59. V. The Third Ordeal about 18 min
  60. VI. The Prosecutor Catches Mitya about 13 min
  61. VII. Mitya’s Great Secret. Received With Hisses about 20 min
  62. VIII. The Evidence Of The Witnesses. The Babe about 16 min
  63. IX. They Carry Mitya Away about 6 min
  64. I. Kolya Krassotkin about 9 min
  65. II. Children about 10 min
  66. III. The Schoolboy about 12 min
  67. IV. The Lost Dog about 14 min
  68. V. By Ilusha’s Bedside about 28 min
  69. VI. Precocity about 11 min
  70. VII. Ilusha about 6 min
  71. I. At Grushenka’s about 17 min
  72. II. The Injured Foot about 18 min
  73. III. A Little Demon about 11 min
  74. IV. A Hymn And A Secret about 24 min
  75. V. Not You, Not You! about 9 min
  76. VI. The First Interview With Smerdyakov about 17 min
  77. VII. The Second Visit To Smerdyakov about 16 min
  78. VIII. The Third And Last Interview With Smerdyakov about 27 min
  79. IX. The Devil. Ivan’s Nightmare about 33 min
  80. X. “It Was He Who Said That” about 9 min
  81. I. The Fatal Day about 12 min
  82. II. Dangerous Witnesses about 16 min
  83. III. The Medical Experts And A Pound Of Nuts about 10 min
  84. IV. Fortune Smiles On Mitya about 17 min
  85. V. A Sudden Catastrophe about 17 min
  86. VI. The Prosecutor’s Speech. Sketches Of Character about 17 min
  87. VII. An Historical Survey about 9 min
  88. VIII. A Treatise On Smerdyakov about 17 min
  89. IX. The Galloping Troika. The End Of The Prosecutor’s Speech about 19 min
  90. X. The Speech For The Defense. An Argument That Cuts Both Ways about 7 min
  91. XI. There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery about 12 min
  92. XII. And There Was No Murder Either about 14 min
  93. XIII. A Corrupter Of Thought about 14 min
  94. XIV. The Peasants Stand Firm about 11 min
  95. I. Plans For Mitya’s Escape about 9 min
  96. II. For A Moment The Lie Becomes Truth about 13 min
  97. III. Ilusha’s Funeral. The Speech At The Stone about 17 min

The opening of 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.

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