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The Brothers Karamazov
Chapters (109)
- Epigraph 0:00
- Part I: Book I: The History of a Family 0:18
- I: Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov 0:28
- II: He Gets Rid of His Eldest Son 9:23
- III: The Second Marriage and the Second Family 17:51
- IV: The Third Son, Alyosha 34:18
- V: Elders 56:47
- Book II: An Unfortunate Gathering 1:20:47
- I: They Arrive at the Monastery 1:20:56
- II: The Old Buffoon 1:33:08
- III: Peasant Women Who Have Faith 1:57:21
- IV: A Lady of Little Faith 2:18:46
- V: So Be It! So Be It! 2:39:55
- VI: Why Is Such a Man Alive? 3:05:33
- VII: A Young Man Bent on a Career 3:32:58
- VIII: The Scandalous Scene 3:56:46
- Book III: The Sensualists 4:20:50
- I: In the Servants’ Quarters 4:20:58
- II: Lizaveta 4:35:39
- III: The Confession of a Passionate Heart—In Verse 4:45:57
- IV: The Confession of a Passionate Heart—In Anecdote 5:08:27
- V: The Confession of a Passionate Heart—“Heels Up” 5:30:44
- VI: Smerdyakov 5:53:09
- VII: The Controversy 6:07:21
- VIII: Over the Brandy 6:22:25
- IX: The Sensualists 6:42:37
- X: Both Together 6:56:43
- XI: Another Reputation Ruined 7:28:23
- Part II: Book IV: Lacerations 7:50:42
- I: Father Ferapont 7:50:50
- II: At His Father’s 8:18:12
- III: A Meeting with the Schoolboys 8:30:52
- IV: At the Hohlakovs’ 8:42:48
- V: A Laceration in the Drawing-Room 8:59:13
- VI: A Laceration in the Cottage 9:31:24
- VII: And in the Open Air 9:53:10
- Book V: Pro and Contra 10:22:21
- I: The Engagement 10:22:29
- II: Smerdyakov with a Guitar 10:52:41
- III: The Brothers Make Friends 11:09:26
- IV: Rebellion 11:35:25
- V: The Grand Inquisitor 12:08:36
- VI: For Awhile a Very Obscure One 13:11:29
- VII: “It’s Always Worth While Speaking to a Clever Man” 13:40:35
- Book VI: The Russian Monk 14:02:34
- I: Father Zossima and His Visitors 14:02:41
- II: The Duel 14:44:19
- III: Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima 15:42:27
- Part III: Book VII: Alyosha 16:23:58
- I: The Breath of Corruption 16:24:06
- II: A Critical Moment 16:58:45
- III: An Onion 17:15:07
- IV: Cana of Galilee 18:07:30
- Book VIII: Mitya 18:21:50
- I: Kuzma Samsonov 18:21:56
- II: Lyagavy 18:53:16
- III: Goldmines 19:13:18
- IV: In the Dark 19:45:51
- V: A Sudden Resolution 20:01:43
- VI: “I Am Coming, Too!” 20:44:11
- VII: The First and Rightful Lover 21:05:51
- VIII: Delirium 21:50:27
- Book IX: The Preliminary Investigation 22:29:20
- I: The Beginning of Perhotin’s Official Career 22:29:29
- II: The Alarm 22:47:45
- III: The Sufferings of a Soul, the First Ordeal 23:05:15
- IV: The Second Ordeal 23:30:32
- V: The Third Ordeal 23:51:22
- VI: The Prosecutor Catches Mitya 24:21:21
- VII: Mitya’s Great Secret. Received with Hisses 24:43:03
- VIII: The Evidence of the Witnesses. The Babe 25:15:35
- IX: They Carry Mitya Away 25:41:41
- Part IV: Book X: The Boys 25:52:41
- I: Kolya Krassotkin 25:52:49
- II: Children 26:07:20
- III: The Schoolboy 26:22:23
- IV: The Lost Dog 26:42:36
- V: By Ilusha’s Bedside 27:03:21
- VI: Precocity 27:46:55
- VII: Ilusha 28:05:32
- Book XI: Ivan 28:15:50
- I: At Grushenka’s 28:15:57
- II: The Injured Foot 28:42:32
- III: A Little Demon 29:13:09
- IV: A Hymn and a Secret 29:30:59
- V: Not You, Not You! 30:11:34
- VI: The First Interview with Smerdyakov 30:27:25
- VII: The Second Visit to Smerdyakov 30:53:17
- VIII: The Third and Last Interview with Smerdyakov 31:18:55
- IX: The Devil. Ivan’s Nightmare 32:00:46
- X: “It Was He Who Said That” 32:54:42
- Book XII: A Judicial Error 33:10:31
- I: The Fatal Day 33:10:39
- II: Dangerous Witnesses 33:29:28
- III: The Medical Experts and a Pound of Nuts 33:54:18
- IV: Fortune Smiles on Mitya 34:09:27
- V: A Sudden Catastrophe 34:34:59
- VI: The Prosecutor’s Speech. Sketches of Character 35:02:41
- VII: An Historical Survey 35:29:42
- VIII: A Treatise on Smerdyakov 35:42:53
- IX: The Galloping Troika. The End of the Prosecutor’s Speech 36:09:17
- X: The Speech for the Defense. An Argument That Cuts Both Ways 36:39:50
- XI: There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery 36:51:10
- XII: And There Was No Murder Either 37:08:48
- XIII: A Corrupter of Thought 37:31:44
- XIV: The Peasants Stand Firm 37:55:11
- Epilogue: I: Plans for Mitya’s Escape 38:12:31
- II: For a Moment the Lie Becomes Truth 38:27:34
- III: Ilusha’s Funeral. The Speech at the Stone 38:48:56
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Dmitri Karamazov and his father Fyodor are at war over both Dmitri’s inheritance and the affections of the beautiful Grushenka. Into this feud arrive the middle brother Ivan, recently returned from Moscow, and the youngest sibling Alyosha, who has been released into the wider world from the local monastery by the elder monk Zossima. Through a series of accidents of fate and wilful misunderstandings the Karamazovs edge closer to tragedy, while the local townspeople watch on.
The Brothers Karamazov was Fyodor Dostoevsky’s final novel, and was originally serialised in The Russian Messenger before being published as a complete novel in 1880. This edition is the well-received 1912 English translation by Constance Garnett. As well as earning wide-spread critical acclaim, the novel has been widely influential in literary and philosophical circles; Franz Kafka and James Joyce admired the emotions that verge on madness in the Karamazovs, while Sigmund Freud and Jean-Paul Satre found inspiration in the themes of patricide and existentialism.