The Brothers Karamazov

Book I: The History of a Family

1. Chapter IFyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov
2. Chapter IIHe Gets Rid of His Eldest Son
3. Chapter IIIThe Second Marriage and the Second Family
4. Chapter IVThe Third Son, Alyosha
5. Chapter VElders

Book II: An Unfortunate Gathering

1. Chapter IThey Arrive at the Monastery
2. Chapter IIThe Old Buffoon
3. Chapter IIIPeasant Women Who Have Faith
4. Chapter IVA Lady of Little Faith
5. Chapter VSo Be It! So Be It!
6. Chapter VIWhy Is Such a Man Alive?
7. Chapter VIIA Young Man Bent on a Career
8. Chapter VIIIThe Scandalous Scene

Book III: The Sensualists

1. Chapter IIn the Servants’ Quarters
2. Chapter IILizaveta
3. Chapter IIIThe Confession of a Passionate Heart—In Verse
4. Chapter IVThe Confession of a Passionate Heart—In Anecdote
5. Chapter VThe Confession of a Passionate Heart—“Heels Up”
6. Chapter VISmerdyakov
7. Chapter VIIThe Controversy
8. Chapter VIIIOver the Brandy
9. Chapter IXThe Sensualists
10. Chapter XBoth Together
11. Chapter XIAnother Reputation Ruined

Book IV: Lacerations

1. Chapter IFather Ferapont
2. Chapter IIAt His Father’s
3. Chapter IIIA Meeting with the Schoolboys
4. Chapter IVAt the Hohlakovs’
5. Chapter VA Laceration in the Drawing-Room
6. Chapter VIA Laceration in the Cottage
7. Chapter VIIAnd in the Open Air

Book V: Pro and Contra

1. Chapter IThe Engagement
2. Chapter IISmerdyakov with a Guitar
3. Chapter IIIThe Brothers Make Friends
4. Chapter IVRebellion
5. Chapter VThe Grand Inquisitor
6. Chapter VIFor Awhile a Very Obscure One
7. Chapter VII“It’s Always Worth While Speaking to a Clever Man”

Book VI: The Russian Monk

1. Chapter IFather Zossima and His Visitors
2. Chapter IIThe Duel
3. Chapter IIIConversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima

Book VII: Alyosha

1. Chapter IThe Breath of Corruption
2. Chapter IIA Critical Moment
3. Chapter IIIAn Onion
4. Chapter IVCana of Galilee

Book VIII: Mitya

1. Chapter IKuzma Samsonov
2. Chapter IILyagavy
3. Chapter IIIGold-Mines
4. Chapter IVIn the Dark
5. Chapter VA Sudden Resolution
6. Chapter VI“I Am Coming, Too!”
7. Chapter VIIThe First and Rightful Lover
8. Chapter VIIIDelirium

Book IX: The Preliminary Investigation

1. Chapter IThe Beginning of Perhotin’s Official Career
2. Chapter IIThe Alarm
3. Chapter IIIThe Sufferings of a Soul, the First Ordeal
4. Chapter IVThe Second Ordeal
5. Chapter VThe Third Ordeal
6. Chapter VIThe Prosecutor Catches Mitya
7. Chapter VIIMitya’s Great Secret. Received with Hisses
8. Chapter VIIIThe Evidence of the Witnesses. The Babe
9. Chapter IXThey Carry Mitya Away

Book X: The Boys

1. Chapter IKolya Krassotkin
2. Chapter IIChildren
3. Chapter IIIThe Schoolboy
4. Chapter IVThe Lost Dog
5. Chapter VBy Ilusha’s Bedside
6. Chapter VIPrecocity
7. Chapter VIIIlusha

Book XI: Ivan

1. Chapter IAt Grushenka’s
2. Chapter IIThe Injured Foot
3. Chapter IIIA Little Demon
4. Chapter IVA Hymn and a Secret
5. Chapter VNot You, Not You!
6. Chapter VIThe First Interview with Smerdyakov
7. Chapter VIIThe Second Visit to Smerdyakov
8. Chapter VIIIThe Third and Last Interview with Smerdyakov
9. Chapter IXThe Devil. Ivan’s Nightmare
10. Chapter X“It Was He Who Said That”

Book XII: A Judicial Error

1. Chapter IThe Fatal Day
2. Chapter IIDangerous Witnesses
3. Chapter IIIThe Medical Experts and a Pound of Nuts
4. Chapter IVFortune Smiles on Mitya
5. Chapter VA Sudden Catastrophe
6. Chapter VIThe Prosecutor’s Speech. Sketches of Character
7. Chapter VIIAn Historical Survey
8. Chapter VIIIA Treatise on Smerdyakov
9. Chapter IXThe Galloping Troika. The End of the Prosecutor’s Speech
10. Chapter XThe Speech for the Defense. An Argument That Cuts Both Ways
11. Chapter XIThere Was No Money. There Was No Robbery
12. Chapter XIIAnd There Was No Murder Either
13. Chapter XIIIA Corrupter of Thought
14. Chapter XIVThe Peasants Stand Firm

Epilogue

1. Chapter IPlans for Mitya’s Escape
2. Chapter IIFor a Moment the Lie Becomes Truth
3. Chapter IIIIlusha’s Funeral. The Speech at the Stone