The Brothers Karamazov

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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 o…

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• AuthorFyodor Dostoevsky
• SourceProject Gutenberg #28054
• Length349,646 words · 23h 19m of reading
• Chapters99
• DictionaryIncluded
• CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
• Source checked2026-08-28

Contents

99 chapters

Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.

1. 01New York
2. 02Chapter I. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov
3. 03Chapter II. He Gets Rid Of His Eldest Son
4. 04Chapter III. The Second Marriage And The Second Family
5. 05Chapter IV. The Third Son, Alyosha
6. 06Chapter V. Elders
7. 07Chapter I. They Arrive At The Monastery
8. 08Chapter II. The Old Buffoon
9. 09Chapter III. Peasant Women Who Have Faith
10. 10Chapter IV. A Lady Of Little Faith
11. 11Chapter V. So Be It! So Be It!
12. 12Chapter VI. Why Is Such A Man Alive?
13. 13Chapter VII. A Young Man Bent On A Career
14. 14Chapter VIII. The Scandalous Scene
15. 15Chapter I. In The Servants’ Quarters
16. 16Chapter II. Lizaveta
17. 17Chapter III. The Confession Of A Passionate Heart—In Verse
18. 18Chapter IV. The Confession Of A Passionate Heart—In Anecdote
19. 19Chapter V. The Confession Of A Passionate Heart—“Heels Up”
20. 20Chapter VI. Smerdyakov
21. 21Chapter VII. The Controversy
22. 22Chapter VIII. Over The Brandy
23. 23Chapter IX. The Sensualists
24. 24Chapter X. Both Together
25. 25Chapter XI. Another Reputation Ruined
26. 26Chapter I. Father Ferapont
27. 27Chapter II. At His Father’s
28. 28Chapter III. A Meeting With The Schoolboys
29. 29Chapter IV. At The Hohlakovs’
30. 30Chapter V. A Laceration In The Drawing-Room
31. 31Chapter VI. A Laceration In The Cottage
32. 32Chapter VII. And In The Open Air
33. 33Chapter I. The Engagement
34. 34Chapter II. Smerdyakov With A Guitar
35. 35Chapter III. The Brothers Make Friends
36. 36Chapter IV. Rebellion
37. 37Chapter V. The Grand Inquisitor
38. 38Chapter VI. For Awhile A Very Obscure One
39. 39Chapter VII. “It’s Always Worth While Speaking To A Clever Man”
40. 40Chapter I. Father Zossima And His Visitors
41. 41BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
42. 42Chapter II. The Duel
43. 43Chapter III. Conversations And Exhortations Of Father Zossima
44. 44Chapter I. The Breath Of Corruption
45. 45Chapter II. A Critical Moment
46. 46Chapter III. An Onion
47. 47Chapter IV. Cana Of Galilee
48. 48Chapter I. Kuzma Samsonov
49. 49Chapter II. Lyagavy
50. 50Chapter III. Gold-Mines
51. 51Chapter IV. In The Dark
52. 52Chapter V. A Sudden Resolution
53. 53Chapter VI. “I Am Coming, Too!”
54. 54Chapter VII. The First And Rightful Lover
55. 55Chapter VIII. Delirium
56. 56Chapter I. The Beginning Of Perhotin’s Official Career
57. 57Chapter II. The Alarm
58. 58Chapter III. The Sufferings Of A Soul, The First Ordeal
59. 59Chapter IV. The Second Ordeal
60. 60Chapter V. The Third Ordeal
61. 61Chapter VI. The Prosecutor Catches Mitya
62. 62Chapter VII. Mitya’s Great Secret. Received With Hisses
63. 63Chapter VIII. The Evidence Of The Witnesses. The Babe
64. 64Chapter IX. They Carry Mitya Away
65. 65Chapter I. Kolya Krassotkin
66. 66Chapter II. Children
67. 67Chapter III. The Schoolboy
68. 68Chapter IV. The Lost Dog
69. 69Chapter V. By Ilusha’s Bedside
70. 70Chapter VI. Precocity
71. 71Chapter VII. Ilusha
72. 72Chapter I. At Grushenka’s
73. 73Chapter II. The Injured Foot
74. 74Chapter III. A Little Demon
75. 75Chapter IV. A Hymn And A Secret
76. 76Chapter V. Not You, Not You!
77. 77Chapter VI. The First Interview With Smerdyakov
78. 78Chapter VII. The Second Visit To Smerdyakov
79. 79Chapter VIII. The Third And Last Interview With Smerdyakov
80. 80Chapter IX. The Devil. Ivan’s Nightmare
81. 81Chapter X. “It Was He Who Said That”
82. 82Chapter I. The Fatal Day
83. 83Chapter II. Dangerous Witnesses
84. 84Chapter III. The Medical Experts And A Pound Of Nuts
85. 85Chapter IV. Fortune Smiles On Mitya
86. 86Chapter V. A Sudden Catastrophe
87. 87Chapter VI. The Prosecutor’s Speech. Sketches Of Character
88. 88Chapter VII. An Historical Survey
89. 89Chapter VIII. A Treatise On Smerdyakov
90. 90Chapter IX. The Galloping Troika. The End Of The Prosecutor’s Speech.
91. 91Chapter X. The Speech For The Defense. An Argument That Cuts Both Ways
92. 92Chapter XI. There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery
93. 93Chapter XII. And There Was No Murder Either
94. 94Chapter XIII. A Corrupter Of Thought
95. 95Chapter XIV. The Peasants Stand Firm
96. 96Chapter I. Plans For Mitya’s Escape
97. 97Chapter II. For A Moment The Lie Becomes Truth
98. 98Chapter III. Ilusha’s Funeral. The Speech At The Stone
99. 99FOOTNOTES

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