The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor DOSTOYEVSKY (1821 - 1881)
The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы) is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered the culmination of his life's work. The book portrays a parricide in which each of a murdered man's sons share a varying degree of complicity. The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that explores deep into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, reason, and modern Russia. Since its publication, it has been acclaimed all over the world by thinkers as diverse as Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, and Pope Benedict XVI as one of the supreme achievements in literature.
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The Brothers Karamazov:
32 - Book 5 Chapter 1 - The Engagement ,
33 - Book 5 Chapter 2 - Smerdyakov with a Guitar ,
34 - Book 5 Chapter 3 - The Brothers Make Friends ,
35 - Book 5 Chapter 4 - Rebellion ,
36 - Book 5 Chapter 5 - The Grand Inquisitor ,
37 - Book 5 Chapter 6 - For Awhile a Very Obscure One ,
38 - Book 5 Chapter 7 - 'It's Always Worth While Speaking to a Clever Man' ,
39 - Book 6, Chapter 1 - Father Zossima and His Visitors ,
40 - Book 6 Chapter 2 - The Duel ,
41 - Book 6 Chapter 3 - Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima ,
42 - Book 7 Chapter 1 - The Breath of Corruption ,
43 - Book 7 Chapter 2 - A Critical Moment ,
44 - Book 7 Chapter 3 - An Onion ,
45 - Book 7 Chapter 4 - Cana of Galilee ,
46 - Book 8 Chapter 1 - Kuzma Samsonov ,
47 - Book 8 Chapter 2 - Lyagavy ,
48 - Book 8 Chapter 3 - Gold-Mines ,
49 - Book 8 Chapter 4 - In the Dark ,
50 - Book 8 Chapter 5 - A Sudden Resolution ,
51 - Book 8 Chapter 6 - 'I Am Coming, too!' ,
52 - Book 8 Chapter 7 - The First and Rightful Lover ,
53 - Book 8 Chapter 8 - Delirium ,
54 - Book 9 Chapter 1 - The Beginning of Perhotin's Official Career ,
55 - Book 9 Chapter 2 - The Alarm ,
56 - Book 9 Chapter 3 - The Sufferings of a Soul, the First Ordeal ,
57 - Book 9 Chapter 4 - The Second Ordeal ,
58 - Book 9 Chapter 5 - The Third Ordeal ,
59 - Book 9 Chapter 6 - The Prosecutor Catches Mitya ,
60 - Book 9 Chapter 7 - Mitya's Great Secret. Received with Hisses ,
61 - Book 9 Chapter 8 - The Evidences of the Witnesses. The Babe ,
62 - Book 9 Chapter 9 - They Carry Mitya Away ,
63 - Book 10 Chapter 1 - Kolya Krassotkin ,
64 - Book 10 Chapter 2 - Children ,
65 - Book 10 Chapter 3 - The Schoolboy ,
66 - Book 10 Chapter 4 - The Lost Dog ,
67 - Book 10 Chapter 5 - By Ilusha's Bedside ,
68 - Book 10 Chapter 6 - Precocity ,
69 - Book 10 Chapter 7 - Ilusha ,
70 - Book 11 Chapter 1 - At Grushenka's ,
71 - Book 11 Chapter 2 - The Injured Foot ,
72 - Book 11 Chapter 3 - A Little Demon ,
73 - Book 11 Chapter 4 - A Hymn and a Secret ,
74 - Book 11 Chapter 5 - Not You, Not You! ,
75 - Book 11 Chapter 6 - The First Interview with Smerdyakov ,
76 - Book 11 Chapter 7 - The Second Visit to Smerdyakov ,
77 - Book 11 Chapter 8 - The Third and Last Interview with Smerdyakov ,
78 - Book 11 Chapter 9 - The Devil. Ivan's Nightmare ,
79 - Book 11 Chapter 10 - 'It Was He Who Said That' ,
80 - Book 12 Chapter 1 - The Fatal Day ,
81 - Book 12 Chapter 2 - Dangerous Witnesses ,
82 - Book 12 Chapter 3 - The Medical Experts and a Pound of Nuts ,
83 - Book 12 Chapter 4 - Fortune Smiles on Mitya ,
84 - Book 12 Chapter 5 - A Sudden Catastrophe ,
85 - Book 12 Chapter 6 - The Prosecutor's Speech. Sketches of Character ,
86 - Book 12 Chapter 7 - An Historical Survey ,
87 - Book 12 Chapter 8 - A Treatise on Smerdyakov ,
88 - Book 12 Chapter 9 - The Galloping Troika. The End of the Prosecutor's Speech ,
89 - Book 12 Chapter 10 - The Speech for the Defence. An Argument that Cuts Both Ways ,
90 - Book 12 Chapter 11 - There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery ,
91 - Book 12 Chapter 12 - And There Was No Murder Either ,
92 - Book 12 Chapter 13 - A Corrupter of Thought ,
93 - Book 12 Chapter 14 - The Peasants Stand Firm ,
94 - Epilogue Chapter 1 - Plans for Mitya's Escape ,
95 - Epilogue Chapter 2 - For a Moment the Lie Becomes Truth ,
96 - Epilogue Chapter 3 - Ilusha's Funeral. The Speech at the Stone