26 ‘Dostoevsky and the Novel’, 465.
27 Quoted in M. Olgin, The Soul of the Russian Revolution, New York (1917), 63.
28 John Middleton Murry, Between Two Worlds, London (1935), 464.
29 See CW 15. 399.
* more colloquial form
1 When the body of a monk or a schemamonk is borne from the cell to the church and, after the service for the dead, to the graveyard, the canticle ‘What Earthly Bliss…’ is sung. If, however, the deceased is a schemahieromonk, the hymn ‘Succour and Guardian…’ is sung. (Author’s note)
Table of Contents
Copyright Page
Title Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Introduction
Translator’s Note
Texts Used
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Dostoevsky
Principal Characters
Time Chart
The Karamazov Brothers
From the Author
Part One
Book One The Story of a Family
1. Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov
2. The eldest son is packed off
3. Second marriage, second brood
4. The third son, Alyosha
5. Startsy
Book Two An Unseemly Encounter
1. They arrive at the monastery
2. The old buffoon
3. Devout peasant women
4. Lady of little faith
5. Amen, amen!
6. A man like him doesn’t deserve to live!
7. The careerist seminarian
8. A scandalous scene
Book Three Sensualists
1. In the servants’ quarters
2. Lizaveta Smerdyashchaya
3. Confessions of a passionate heart. In verse
4. Confessions of a passionate heart. In anecdotes
5. Confessions of a passionate heart. ‘In free fall’
6. Smerdyakov
7. Controversy
8. Over a glass of brandy
9. Sensualists
10. Both together
11. One more ruined reputation
Part Two
Book Four Crises
1. Father Therapon
2. At his father’s
3. An encounter with some schoolboys
4. At the Khokhlakovas’
5. Crisis in the drawing-room
6. Crisis in the tenement
7. And in the fresh air
Book Five Pros and Cons
1. Betrothal
2. Smerdyakov with a guitar
3. The brothers get to know each other
4. Rebellion
5. The Grand Inquisitor
6. Still very unclear
7. ‘It’s always interesting to talk to an intelligent person’
Book Six A Russian Monk
1. Starets Zosima and his visitors
2. From the life of the Schemahieromonk Father Zosima, resting in the Lord, in his own words, as recorded by Aleksei Fyodorovich Karamazov
3. Concerning the discourses and teachings of Starets Zosima
Part Three
Book Seven Alyosha
1. Odour of putrefaction
2. Here’s an opportunity
3. A spring onion
4. Cana of Galilee
Book Eight Mitya
1. Kuzma Samsonov
2. Lurcher
3. Prospecting for gold
4. In the darkness
5. A sudden decision
6. Here I come!
7. The former and indisputable one
8. Delirium
Book Nine Judicial Investigation
1. The beginning of civil servant Perkhotin’s career
2. Alarm
3. A soul’s journey through torments. First torment
4. Second torment
5. Third torment
6. The prosecutor catches Mitya out
7. Mitya’s great secret. He is made a laughing-stock
8. Witnesses’ evidence. The bairn
9. Mitya is taken away
Part Four
Book Ten Schoolboys
1. Kolya Krasotkin
2. Children
3. The schoolboy
4. Zhuchka
5. At Ilyusha’s bedside
6. Precociousness
7. Ilyusha
Book Eleven Ivan Fyodorovich
1. At Grushenka’s
2. Painful foot
3. Little she-devil
4. The hymn and the secret
5. Not you, not you!
6. First visit to Smerdyakov
7. Second visit to Smerdyakov
8. Third and last visit to Smerdyakov
9. The Devil, Ivan Fyodorovich’s nightmare
10. ‘He said that!’
Book Twelve Judicial Mistake
1. The fateful day
2. Dangerous witnesses
3. Medical evidence and a pound of nuts
4. Fortune smiles on Mitya
5. Unexpected catastrophe
6. Prosecutor’s speech. Character sketch
7. Background history
8. More about Smerdyakov
9. Psychology let loose. Galloping troika. The prosecutor’s summing-up
10. Defence counsel’s speech. All things to all men
11. There was no money. There was no robbery
12. Neither was there a murder
13. Truth perverted
14. Trust the peasants!
Epilogue
1. Plans for Mitya’s escape
2. For a moment a lie becomes the truth
3. Ilyushechka’s funeral. The speech at the stone
Explanatory Notes
Footnotes
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