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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1 min to start
23 hrs to read

Contents

Epigraph
1 min
Part I
Book I - The History of a Family
I - Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov
5 mins
II - He Gets Rid of His Eldest Son
5 mins
III - The Second Marriage and the Second Family
10 mins
IV - The Third Son, Alyosha
14 mins
V - Elders
14 mins
Book II - An Unfortunate Gathering
I - They Arrive at the Monastery
7 mins
II - The Old Buffoon
14 mins
III - Peasant Women Who Have Faith
12 mins
IV - A Lady of Little Faith
12 mins
V - So Be It! So Be It!
14 mins
VI - Why Is Such a Man Alive?
15 mins
VII - A Young Man Bent on a Career
13 mins
VIII - The Scandalous Scene
14 mins
Book III - The Sensualists
I - In the Servants’ Quarters
8 mins
II - Lizaveta
6 mins
III - The Confession of a Passionate Heart⁠—In Verse
12 mins
IV - The Confession of a Passionate Heart⁠—In Anecdote
13 mins
V - The Confession of a Passionate Heart⁠—“Heels Up”
13 mins
VI - Smerdyakov
8 mins
VII - The Controversy
8 mins
VIII - Over the Brandy
11 mins
IX - The Sensualists
8 mins
X - Both Together
17 mins
XI - Another Reputation Ruined
10 mins
Part II
Book IV - Lacerations
I - Father Ferapont
16 mins
II - At His Father’s
7 mins
III - A Meeting with the Schoolboys
7 mins
IV - At the Hohlakovs’
9 mins
V - A Laceration in the Drawing-Room
18 mins
VI - A Laceration in the Cottage
13 mins
VII - And in the Open Air
17 mins
Book V - Pro and Contra
I - The Engagement
17 mins
II - Smerdyakov with a Guitar
9 mins
III - The Brothers Make Friends
15 mins
IV - Rebellion
19 mins
V - The Grand Inquisitor
36 mins
VI - For Awhile a Very Obscure One
17 mins
VII - “It’s Always Worth While Speaking to a Clever Man”
13 mins
Book VI - The Russian Monk
I - Father Zossima and His Visitors
25 mins
II - The Duel
36 mins
III - Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima
24 mins
Part III
Book VII - Alyosha
I - The Breath of Corruption
20 mins
II - A Critical Moment
9 mins
III - An Onion
31 mins
IV - Cana of Galilee
8 mins
Book VIII - Mitya
I - Kuzma Samsonov
19 mins
II - Lyagavy
11 mins
III - Goldmines
18 mins
IV - In the Dark
9 mins
V - A Sudden Resolution
25 mins
VI - “I Am Coming, Too!”
12 mins
VII - The First and Rightful Lover
25 mins
VIII - Delirium
21 mins
Book IX - The Preliminary Investigation
I - The Beginning of Perhotin’s Official Career
11 mins
II - The Alarm
10 mins
III - The Sufferings of a Soul, the First Ordeal
14 mins
IV - The Second Ordeal
12 mins
V - The Third Ordeal
17 mins
VI - The Prosecutor Catches Mitya
12 mins
VII - Mitya’s Great Secret. Received with Hisses
19 mins
VIII - The Evidence of the Witnesses. The Babe
15 mins
IX - They Carry Mitya Away
6 mins
Part IV
Book X - The Boys
I - Kolya Krassotkin
8 mins
II - Children
9 mins
III - The Schoolboy
11 mins
IV - The Lost Dog
13 mins
V - By Ilusha’s Bedside
26 mins
VI - Precocity
10 mins
VII - Ilusha
5 mins
Book XI - Ivan
I - At Grushenka’s
15 mins
II - The Injured Foot
17 mins
III - A Little Demon
10 mins
IV - A Hymn and a Secret
22 mins
V - Not You, Not You!
8 mins
VI - The First Interview with Smerdyakov
15 mins
VII - The Second Visit to Smerdyakov
14 mins
VIII - The Third and Last Interview with Smerdyakov
25 mins
IX - The Devil. Ivan’s Nightmare
31 mins
X - “It Was He Who Said That”
9 mins
Book XII - A Judicial Error
I - The Fatal Day
11 mins
II - Dangerous Witnesses
15 mins
III - The Medical Experts and a Pound of Nuts
9 mins
IV - Fortune Smiles on Mitya
15 mins
V - A Sudden Catastrophe
16 mins
VI - The Prosecutor’s Speech. Sketches of Character
16 mins
VII - An Historical Survey
8 mins
VIII - A Treatise on Smerdyakov
16 mins
IX - The Galloping Troika. The End of the Prosecutor’s Speech
18 mins
X - The Speech for the Defense. An Argument That Cuts Both Ways
6 mins
XI - There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery
11 mins
XII - And There Was No Murder Either
13 mins
XIII - A Corrupter of Thought
13 mins
XIV - The Peasants Stand Firm
10 mins
Epilogue
Plans for Mitya’s Escape
8 mins
For a Moment the Lie Becomes Truth
12 mins
Ilusha’s Funeral. The Speech at the Stone
16 mins
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