Table Of Contents:
Introduction xi
Translator's Note xxix
Texts Used xxxi
Select Bibliography xxxii
A Chronology of Dostoevsky xxxiii
Principal Characters xxxv
Time Chart xxxvi

The Karamazov Brothers From the Author 5(970)

Part One

The Story of a Family

Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov 9(3)

The eldest son is packed off 12(4)

Second marriage, second brood 16(7)

The third son, Alyosha 23(9)

Startsy 32(11)

An Unseemly Encounter

They arrive at the monastery 43(5)

The old buffoon 48(10)

Devout peasant women 58(8)

Lady of little faith 66(9)

Amen, amen! 75(10)

A man like him doesn't deserve to live! 85(11)

The careerist seminarian 96(10)

A scandalous scene 106(11)

Sensualists

In the servants' quarters 117(6)

Lizaveta Smerdyashchaya 123(4)

Confessions of a passionate heart. In verse 127(10)

Confessions of a passionate heart. In anecdotes 137(8)

Confessions of a passionate heart. `In free fall' 145(9)

Smerdyakov 154(6)

Controversy 160(6)

Over a glass of brandy 166(8)

Sensualists 174(7)

Both together 181(12)

One more ruined reputation 193(12)

Part Two

Crises

Father Therapon 205(11)

At his father's 216(6)

An encounter with some schoolboys 222(5)

At the Khokhlakovas' 227(7)

Crisis in the drawing-room 234(12)

Crisis in the tenement 246(9)

And in the fresh air 255(12)

Pros and Cons

Betrothal 267(12)

Smerdyakov with a guitar 279(7)

The brothers get to know each other 286(10)

Rebellion 296(13)

The Grand Inquisitor 309(23)

Still very unclear 332(11)

`It's always interesting to talk to an intelligent person' 343(10)

A Russian Monk

Starets Zosima and his visitors 353(5)

From the life of the Schemahieromonk Father Zosima, resting in the Lord, in his own words 358(35)

Aleksei Fyodorovich Karamazov

Concerning the discourses and teachings of Starets Zosima 393(18)

Part Three

Alyosha

Odour of putrefaction 411(14)

Here's an opportunity 425(7)

A spring onion 432(20)

Cana of Galilee 452(7)

Mitya

Kuzma Samsonov 459(12)

Lurcher 471(8)

Prospecting for gold 479(13)

In the darkness 492(6)

A sudden decision 498(19)

Here I come! 517(9)

The former and indisputable one 526(19)

Delirium 545(16)

Judicial Investigation

The beginning of civil servant Perkhotin's career 561(7)

Alarm 568(8)

A soul's journey through torments. First torment 576(10)

Second torment 586(8)

Third torment 594(13)

The prosecutor catches Mitya out 607(9)

Mitya's great secret. He is made a laughing-stock 616(13)

Witnesses' evidence. The bairn 629(11)

Mitya is taken away 640(7)

Part Four

Schoolboys

Kolya Krasotkin 647(5)

Children 652(7)

The schoolboy 659(9)

Zhuchka 668(7)

At Ilyusha's bedside 675(18)

Precociousness 693(7)

Ilyusha 700(5)

Ivan Fyodorovich

At Grushenka's 705(11)

Painful foot 716(11)

Little she-devil 727(8)

The hymn and the secret 735(15)

Not you, not you! 750(7)

First visit to Smerdyakov 757(11)

Second visit to Smerdyakov 768(10)

Third and last visit to Smerdyakov 778(18)

The Devil. Ivan Fyodorovich's nightmare 796(20)

`He said that!' 816(7)

Judicial Mistake

The fateful day 823(8)

Dangerous witnesses 831(10)

Medical evidence and a pound of nuts 841(7)

Fortune smiles on Mitya 848(10)

Unexpected catastrophe 858(11)

Prosecutor's speech. Character sketch 869(12)

Background history 881(6)

More about Smerdyakov 887(11)

Psychology let loose. Galloping troika. The prosecutor's summing-up 898(13)

Defence counsel's speech. All things to all men 911(5)

There was no money. There was no robbery 916(8)

Neither was there a murder 924(9)

Truth perverted 933(8)

Trust the peasants! 941(10)

Epilogue

Plans for Mitya's escape 951(5)

For a moment a lie becomes the truth 956(8)

Ilyushechka's funeral. The speech at the stone 964(11)
Explanatory Notes 975