The Brothers Karamazov

A Murdered Father and Three Sons

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785486533884
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

A father is murdered and three sons are suspects: the sensualist who wanted his money and his woman, the intellectual who proved that everything is permitted, and the novice who believes. Dostoevsky wrote it in the last two years of his life, working from the case of a man he had known in prison who was convicted of parricide and later cleared. The trial takes a whole book and settles nothing. Thirty-two plates of Russian grief and faith by painters from Korzukhin to Nesterov, the visual world of parricide, wakes and village cemeteries that Dostoevsky's novel inhabits.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Chapter XI. Another Reputation Ruined
• 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
• 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”
• Chapter I. Father Zossima and His Visitors
• Chapter II. The Duel
• Chapter III. Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima
• Chapter I. The Breath of Corruption
• Chapter II. A Critical Moment
• Chapter III. An Onion
• Chapter IV. Cana of Galilee
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Chapter I. At Grushenka’s
• 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”
• 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
• About the Author