The Brothers Karamazov

1 The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Brothers Karamazov byFyodor DostoyevskyThis ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United Statesand most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost norestrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-useit under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included withthis eBook or online at If youare not located in the United States, you'll have to check the lawsof the country where you are located before using this : The Brothers KaramazovAuthor: Fyodor DostoyevskyRelease Date: February 12, 2009 [Ebook 28054]Language: English**START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOKTHE Brothers Karamazov **The Brothers KaramazovTranslated from the Russian ofFyodor Dostoyevskyby Constance GarnettThe Lowell PressNew YorkContentsPart I .. 2 Book I. The History Of A Family .. 2 Chapter I. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov .. 2 Chapter II. He Gets Rid Of His Eldest Son.

2 6 Chapter III. The Second Marriage And The Sec-ond Family .. 9 Chapter IV. The Third Son, Alyosha .. 16 Chapter V. Elders .. 25 Book II. An Unfortunate Gathering .. 36 Chapter I. They Arrive At The Monastery .. 36 Chapter II. The Old Buffoon .. 41 Chapter III. Peasant Women Who Have Faith .. 51 Chapter IV. A Lady Of Little Faith .. 60 Chapter V. So Be It! So Be It! .. 68 Chapter VI. Why Is Such A Man Alive? .. 79 Chapter VII. A Young Man Bent On A Career .. 90 Chapter VIII. The Scandalous Scene .. 100 Book III. The Sensualists .. 111 Chapter I. In The Servants' Quarters .. 111 Chapter II. Lizaveta .. 117 Chapter III. The Confession Of A PassionateHeart In Verse .. 121 Chapter IV. The Confession Of A PassionateHeart In Anecdote .. 131 Chapter V. The Confession Of A PassionateHeart "Heels Up" .. 140 Chapter VI. Smerdyakov .. 150 Chapter VII. The Controversy .. 156 Chapter VIII. Over The Brandy.

3 163ivThe Brothers KaramazovChapter IX. The Sensualists .. 171 Chapter X. Both Together .. 178 Chapter XI. Another Reputation Ruined .. 191 Part II .. 201 Book IV. Lacerations .. 201 Chapter I. Father Ferapont .. 201 Chapter II. At His Father's .. 213 Chapter III. A Meeting With The Schoolboys .. 218 Chapter IV. At The Hohlakovs' .. 223 Chapter V. A Laceration In The Drawing-Room . 231 Chapter VI. A Laceration In The Cottage .. 243 Chapter VII. And In The Open Air .. 253 Book V. Pro And Contra .. 265 Chapter I. The Engagement .. 265 Chapter II. Smerdyakov With A Guitar .. 277 Chapter III. The Brothers Make Friends .. 285 Chapter IV. Rebellion .. 296 Chapter V. The Grand Inquisitor .. 309 Chapter VI. For Awhile A Very Obscure One .. 333 Chapter VII. It's Always Worth While SpeakingTo A Clever Man .. 345 Book VI. The Russian Monk .. 356 Chapter I. Father Zossima And His Visitors .. 356 Chapter II. The Duel.

4 372 Chapter III. Conversations And Exhortations OfFather Zossima .. 397 Part III .. 414 Book VII. Alyosha .. 414 Chapter I. The Breath Of Corruption .. 414 Chapter II. A Critical Moment .. 429 Chapter III. An Onion .. 436 Chapter IV. Cana Of Galilee .. 457 Book VIII. Mitya .. 464 Chapter I. Kuzma Samsonov .. 464vChapter II. Lyagavy .. 477 Chapter III. Gold-Mines .. 485 Chapter IV. In The Dark .. 499 Chapter V. A Sudden Resolution .. 506 Chapter VI. I Am Coming, Too! .. 525 Chapter VII. The First And Rightful Lover .. 535 Chapter VIII. Delirium .. 555 Book IX. The Preliminary Investigation .. 573 Chapter I. The Beginning Of Perhotin's OfficialCareer .. 573 Chapter II. The Alarm .. 581 Chapter III. The Sufferings Of A Soul, The FirstOrdeal .. 589 Chapter IV. The Second Ordeal .. 599 Chapter V. The Third Ordeal .. 608 Chapter VI. The Prosecutor Catches Mitya .. 622 Chapter VII. Mitya's Great Secret. ReceivedWith Hisses.

5 631 Chapter VIII. The Evidence Of The Babe .. 645 Chapter IX. They Carry Mitya Away .. 657 Part IV .. 663 Book X. The Boys .. 663 Chapter I. Kolya Krassotkin .. 663 Chapter II. Children .. 669 Chapter III. The Schoolboy .. 676 Chapter IV. The Lost Dog .. 685 Chapter V. By Ilusha's Bedside .. 694 Chapter VI. Precocity .. 713 Chapter VII. Ilusha .. 721 Book XI. Ivan .. 727 Chapter I. At Grushenka's .. 727 Chapter II. The Injured Foot .. 738 Chapter III. A Little Demon .. 749viThe Brothers KaramazovChapter IV. A Hymn And A Secret .. 757 Chapter V. Not You, Not You! .. 774 Chapter VI. The First Interview With Smerdyakov 781 Chapter VII. The Second Visit To Smerdyakov . 792 Chapter VIII. The Third And Last Interview WithSmerdyakov .. 803 Chapter IX. The Devil. Ivan's Nightmare .. 822 Chapter X. It Was He Who Said That .. 844 Book XII. A Judicial Error .. 851 Chapter I. The Fatal Day .. 851 Chapter II.

6 Dangerous Witnesses .. 859 Chapter III. The Medical Experts And A PoundOf Nuts .. 870 Chapter IV. Fortune Smiles On Mitya .. 876 Chapter V. A Sudden Catastrophe .. 888 Chapter VI. The Prosecutor's Speech. SketchesOf Character .. 899 Chapter VII. An Historical Survey .. 910 Chapter VIII. A Treatise On Smerdyakov .. 916 Chapter IX. The Galloping Troika. The End OfThe Prosecutor's Speech.. 927 Chapter X. The Speech For The Defense. AnArgument That Cuts Both Ways .. 940 Chapter XI. There Was No Money. There WasNo Robbery .. 945 Chapter XII. And There Was No Murder Either . 952 Chapter XIII. A Corrupter Of Thought .. 961 Chapter XIV. The Peasants Stand Firm .. 970 Epilogue .. 979 Chapter I. Plans For Mitya's Escape .. 979 Chapter II. For A Moment The Lie Becomes Truth .. 985 Chapter III. Ilusha's Funeral. The Speech At The Stone 994 Footnotes .. 1007[001]Part IBook I. The History Of A FamilyChapter I. Fyodor Pavlovitch KaramazovAlexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of FyodorPavlovitch Karamazov , a land owner well known in our districtin his own day, and still remembered among us owing to hisgloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago,and which I shall describe in its proper place.

7 For the present Iwill 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 wasa strange type, yet one pretty frequently to be met with, a typeabject and vicious and at the same time senseless. But he was oneof those senseless persons who are very well capable of lookingafter their worldly affairs, and, apparently, after nothing Pavlovitch, for instance, began with next to nothing; hisestate 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 thathe had a hundred thousand roubles in hard cash. At the sametime, he was all his life one of the most senseless, fantasticalfellows in the whole district. I repeat, it was not stupidity themajority of these fantastical fellows are shrewd and intelligentChapter I. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov3enough but just senselessness, and a peculiar national form was married twice, and had three sons, the eldest, Dmitri,by his first wife, and two, Ivan and Alexey, by his Pavlovitch's first wife, Adela da Ivanovna, belonged toa fairly rich and distinguished noble family, also landowners inour district, the Mi sovs.

8 How it came to pass that an heiress,who was also a beauty, and moreover one of those vigorous,intelligent girls, so common in this generation, but sometimes[002]also to be found in the last, could have married such a worthless,puny weakling, as we all called him, I won't attempt to knew a young lady of the last romantic generation who aftersome years of an enigmatic passion for a gentleman, whom shemight quite easily have married at any moment, invented insu-perable obstacles to their union, and ended by throwing herselfone stormy night into a rather deep and rapid river from a highbank, almost a precipice, and so perished, entirely to satisfy herown caprice, and to be like Shakespeare's Ophelia. Indeed, ifthis precipice, a chosen and favorite spot of hers, had been lesspicturesque, if there had been a prosaic flat bank in its place,most likely the suicide would never have taken place. This is afact, and probably there have been not a few similar instances inthe last two or three generations.

9 Adela da Ivanovna Mi sov'saction was similarly, no doubt, an echo of other people's ideas,and was due to the irritation caused by lack of mental wanted, perhaps, to show her feminine independence, tooverride class distinctions and the despotism of her family. Anda pliable imagination persuaded her, we must suppose, for a briefmoment, that Fyodor Pavlovitch, in spite of his parasitic position,was one of the bold and ironical spirits of that progressive epoch,though he was, in fact, an ill-natured buffoon and nothing gave the marriage piquancy was that it was preceded by anelopement, and this greatly captivated Adela da Ivanovna's fan-cy. Fyodor Pavlovitch's position at the time made him specially4 The Brothers Karamazoveager for any such enterprise, for he was passionately anxiousto make a career in one way or another. To attach himself to agood family and obtain a dowry was an alluring prospect. As formutual love it did not exist apparently, either in the bride or inhim, in spite of Adela da Ivanovna's beauty.

10 This was, perhaps,a unique case of the kind in the life of Fyodor Pavlovitch, whowas always of a voluptuous temper, and ready to run after anypetticoat on the slightest encouragement. She seems to have beenthe only woman who made no particular appeal to his after the elopement Adela da Ivanovna discernedin a flash that she had no feeling for her husband but marriage accordingly showed itself in its true colors withextraordinary rapidity. Although the family accepted the eventpretty quickly and apportioned the runaway bride her dowry,[003]the husband and wife began to lead a most disorderly life, andthere were everlasting scenes between them. It was said that theyoung wife showed incomparably more generosity and dignitythan Fyodor Pavlovitch, who, as is now known, got hold of allher money up to twenty-five thousand roubles as soon as shereceived it, so that those thousands were lost to her for ever. Thelittle village and the rather fine town house which formed partof her dowry he did his utmost for a long time to transfer to hisname, by means of some deed of conveyance.