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Title: The Brothers Karamazov Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Release Appointment: February 12, 2009 [Ebook #28054] Linguistic communication: English Character set encoding: UTF-viii ***Beginning OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV***
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The Brothers Karamazov
Translated from the Russian of
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
past Constance Garnett
The Lowell Press
New York
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Contents
Part I
Book I. The History Of A Family
Chapter I. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov
Chapter II. He Gets Rid Of His Eldest Son
Chapter III. The 2nd Marriage And The Second Family unit
Chapter Iv. The Third Son, Alyosha
Chapter V. Elders
Book II. An Unfortunate Gathering
Chapter I. They Arrive At The Monastery
Chapter Two. The Old Buffoon
Chapter III. Peasant Women Who Accept Faith
Chapter IV. A Lady Of Piffling Religion
Chapter Five. So Be It! So Be Information technology!
Chapter Half dozen. Why Is Such A Human Alive?
Chapter Vii. A Immature Homo Aptitude On A Career
Affiliate VIII. The Scandalous Scene
Book 3. The Sensualists
Chapter I. In The Servants' Quarters
Chapter II. Lizaveta
Chapter 3. The Confession Of A Passionate Heart--In Poetry
Chapter Iv. The Confession Of A Passionate Heart--In Anecdote
Chapter V. The Confession Of A Passionate Heart--"Heels Up"
Affiliate VI. Smerdyakov
Chapter VII. The Controversy
Chapter VIII. Over The Brandy
Chapter IX. The Sensualists
Chapter X. Both Together
Chapter Xi. Another Reputation Ruined
Part II
Volume Iv. Lacerations
Affiliate I. Begetter Ferapont
Chapter Ii. At His Father's
Chapter Iii. A Meeting With The Schoolboys
Affiliate IV. At The Hohlakovs'
Chapter 5. A Laceration In The Cartoon-Room
Chapter 6. A Laceration In The Cottage
Affiliate Vii. And In The Open Air
Book V. Pro And Contra
Chapter I. The Engagement
Chapter 2. Smerdyakov With A Guitar
Chapter Three. The Brothers Make Friends
Chapter Iv. Rebellion
Chapter V. The Grand Inquisitor
Chapter Vi. For Awhile A Very Obscure One
Chapter VII. "Information technology's Always Worth While Speaking To A Clever Human being"
Book Vi. The Russian Monk
Chapter I. Father Zossima And His Visitors
Chapter II. The Duel
Affiliate 3. Conversations And Exhortations Of Father Zossima
Office III
Book Seven. Alyosha
Chapter I. The Jiff Of Corruption
Chapter II. A Critical Moment
Chapter III. An Onion
Affiliate IV. Cana Of Galilee
Book VIII. Mitya
Chapter I. Kuzma Samsonov
Affiliate II. Lyagavy
Affiliate Three. Gold-Mines
Chapter IV. In The Nighttime
Affiliate V. A Sudden Resolution
Chapter 6. "I Am Coming, Too!"
Chapter VII. The First And Rightful Lover
Chapter Viii. Delirium
Book IX. The Preliminary Investigation
Chapter I. The Beginning Of Perhotin's Official Career
Affiliate 2. The Alarm
Chapter III. The Sufferings Of A Soul, The First Ordeal
Chapter Four. The Second Ordeal
Chapter V. The Third Ordeal
Chapter Vi. The Prosecutor Catches Mitya
Chapter Seven. Mitya's Bang-up Surreptitious. Received With Hisses
Chapter VIII. The Bear witness Of The Witnesses. The Babe
Affiliate Nine. They Carry Mitya Away
Part IV
Book Ten. The Boys
Chapter I. Kolya Krassotkin
Chapter II. Children
Affiliate Iii. The Schoolboy
Chapter IV. The Lost Canis familiaris
Chapter V. By Ilusha's Bedside
Chapter Six. Precocity
Chapter 7. Ilusha
Volume 11. Ivan
Affiliate I. At Grushenka'southward
Chapter II. The Injured Foot
Chapter III. A Niggling Demon
Affiliate Iv. A Hymn And A Cloak-and-dagger
Chapter 5. Not You, Not Yous!
Chapter Vi. The First Interview With Smerdyakov
Affiliate Seven. The 2d Visit To Smerdyakov
Chapter VIII. The Third And Final Interview With Smerdyakov
Chapter IX. The Devil. Ivan's Nightmare
Chapter X. "Information technology Was He Who Said That"
Book XII. A Judicial Error
Chapter I. The Fatal Day
Chapter II. Dangerous Witnesses
Affiliate Iii. The Medical Experts And A Pound Of Nuts
Chapter IV. Fortune Smiles On Mitya
Chapter V. A Sudden Ending
Chapter VI. The Prosecutor's Speech. Sketches Of Grapheme
Affiliate VII. An Historical Survey
Affiliate VIII. A Treatise On Smerdyakov
Chapter IX. The Galloping Troika. The End Of The Prosecutor'south Speech.
Chapter X. The Speech For The Defense. An Argument That Cuts Both Ways
Chapter Xi. There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery
Chapter XII. And There Was No Murder Either
Affiliate XIII. A Corrupter Of Thought
Chapter Fourteen. The Peasants Stand Firm
Epilogue
Chapter I. Plans For Mitya'due south Escape
Affiliate Ii. For A Moment The Lie Becomes Truth
Chapter III. Ilusha's Funeral. The Voice communication At The Stone
Footnotes
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Part I
Volume I. The History Of A Family
Chapter I. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov
Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the tertiary son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a country owner well known in our district in his own day, and withal remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened 13 years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper identify. For the present I will but say that this "landowner"--for so we used to phone call him, although he hardly spent a day of his life on his own estate--was a strange type, yet ane pretty oftentimes to exist met with, a type apple-polishing and cruel and at the same time senseless. Merely he was 1 of those senseless persons who are very well capable of looking after their worldly affairs, and, apparently, after cipher else. Fyodor Pavlovitch, for instance, began with next to nothing; his estate was of the smallest; he ran to dine at other men's tables, and attached on them as a toady, yet at his death information technology appeared that he had a hundred thousand roubles in hard cash. At the same time, he was all his life 1 of the nigh senseless, fantastical fellows in the whole district. I repeat, it was not stupidity--the majority of these fantastical fellows are shrewd and intelligent enough--but only senselessness, and a peculiar national form of it.
He was married twice, and had three sons, the eldest, Dmitri, past his first wife, and two, Ivan and Alexey, by his 2d. Fyodor Pavlovitch'due south get-go wife, Adelaida Ivanovna, belonged to a fairly rich and distinguished noble family, also landowners in our district, the Miusovs.
How it came to pass that an heiress, who was besides a beauty, and moreover i of those vigorous, intelligent girls, so [pg 002] common in this generation, but sometimes also to exist establish in the last, could have married such a worthless, puny weakling, every bit we all called him, I won't endeavor to explain. I knew a young lady of the last "romantic" generation who after some years of an enigmatic passion for a admirer, whom she might quite easily have married at any moment, invented insuperable obstacles to their spousal relationship, and ended by throwing herself one stormy dark into a rather deep and rapid river from a high bank, almost a precipice, and and so perished, entirely to satisfy her ain caprice, and to be like Shakespeare'south Ophelia. Indeed, if this precipice, a chosen and favorite spot of hers, had been less picturesque, if there had been a prosaic flat bank in its place, most likely the suicide would never take taken place. This is a fact, and probably at that place accept been non a few similar instances in the last two or three generations. Adelaida Ivanovna Miusov's action was similarly, no doubt, an echo of other people's ideas, and was due to the irritation caused by lack of mental freedom. She wanted, peradventure, to bear witness her feminine independence, to override class distinctions and the despotism of her family. And a pliable imagination persuaded her, we must suppose, for a brief moment, that Fyodor Pavlovitch, in spite of his parasitic position, was i of the bold and ironical spirits of that progressive epoch, though he was, in fact, an ill-natured buffoon and nix more. What gave the marriage piquancy was that it was preceded past an elopement, and this profoundly captivated Adelaida Ivanovna'south fancy. Fyodor Pavlovitch'south position at the time made him peculiarly eager for whatever such enterprise, for he was passionately anxious to make a career in 1 mode or another. To attach himself to a practiced family unit and obtain a dowry was an alluring prospect. Equally for mutual honey information technology did not be apparently, either in the bride or in him, in spite of Adelaida Ivanovna'southward dazzler. This was, perhaps, a unique case of the kind in the life of Fyodor Pavlovitch, who was e'er of a voluptuous temper, and ready to run afterwards any petticoat on the slightest encouragement. She seems to take been the only adult female who fabricated no particular appeal to his senses.
Immediately after the elopement Adelaida Ivanovna discerned in a wink that she had no feeling for her husband but contempt. The marriage accordingly showed itself in its true colors with boggling rapidity. Although the family accepted the effect [pg 003] pretty quickly and apportioned the runaway helpmate her dowry, the husband and wife began to lead a most hell-raising life, and there were everlasting scenes between them. Information technology was said that the young wife showed decidedly more than generosity and nobility than Fyodor Pavlovitch, who, as is now known, got hold of all her coin up to twenty-five k roubles as presently as she received it, so that those thousands were lost to her for ever. The little hamlet and the rather fine town house which formed part of her dowry he did his utmost for a long time to transfer to his proper noun, by means of some human activity of conveyance. He would probably have succeeded, but from her moral fatigue and desire to get rid of him, and from the antipathy and loathing he aroused by his persistent and shameless importunity. But, fortunately, Adelaida Ivanovna's family intervened and circumvented his greediness. It is known for a fact that frequent fights took place between the husband and wife, but rumor had it that Fyodor Pavlovitch did not beat his wife but was browbeaten by her, for she was a hot-tempered, bold, nighttime-browed, impatient woman, possessed of remarkable concrete strength. Finally, she left the business firm and ran away from Fyodor Pavlovitch with a destitute divinity educatee, leaving Mitya, a child of three years old, in her husband's hands. Immediately Fyodor Pavlovitch introduced a regular harem into the firm, and abandoned himself to orgies of drunkenness. In the intervals he used to drive all over the province, complaining tearfully to each and all of Adelaida Ivanovna's having left him, going into details as well disgraceful for a hubby to mention in regard to his own married life. What seemed to gratify him and flatter his self-love most was to play the ridiculous part of the injured husband, and to parade his woes with embellishments.
"One would call up that you'd got a promotion, Fyodor Pavlovitch, you seem so pleased in spite of your sorrow," scoffers said to him. Many even added that he was glad of a new comic part in which to play the buffoon, and that it was simply to make it funnier that he pretended to exist unaware of his ludicrous position. Just, who knows, it may have been simplicity. At last he succeeded in getting on the track of his runaway wife. The poor woman turned out to exist in Petersburg, where she had gone with her divinity student, and where she had thrown herself into a life of complete emancipation. Fyodor Pavlovitch at one time began humming about, [pg 004] making preparations to go to Petersburg, with what object he could not himself have said. He would peradventure have really gone; only having determined to do so he felt at in one case entitled to fortify himself for the journeying by another tour of reckless drinking. And just at that fourth dimension his wife'due south family received the news of her death in Petersburg. She had died quite of a sudden in a garret, according to one story, of typhus, or as another version had it, of starvation. Fyodor Pavlovitch was boozer when he heard of his wife's expiry, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his easily to Heaven: "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace," but others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were lamentable for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is quite possible that both versions were true, that he rejoiced at his release, and at the same time wept for her who released him. As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we suppose. And nosotros ourselves are, likewise.
Chapter II. He Gets Rid Of His Eldest Son
Yous can hands imagine what a father such a man could be and how he would bring up his children. His beliefs every bit a father was exactly what might be expected. He completely abandoned the kid of his marriage with Adelaida Ivanovna, not from malice, nor because of his matrimonial grievances, only just considering he forgot him. While he was wearying every one with his tears and complaints, and turning his house into a sink of immoderacy, a faithful servant of the family unit, Grigory, took the three-year-old Mitya into his care. If he hadn't looked after him there would have been no ane even to modify the baby's little shirt.
It happened moreover that the kid'southward relations on his female parent'southward side forgot him likewise at starting time. His grandfather was no longer living, his widow, Mitya'south grandmother, had moved to Moscow, and was seriously sick, while his daughters were married, so that Mitya remained for virtually a whole twelvemonth in old Grigory's accuse and lived [pg 005] with him in the servant'due south cottage. Just if his father had remembered him (he could not, indeed, have been altogether unaware of his beingness) he would have sent him back to the cottage, as the kid would only have been in the style of his debaucheries. But a cousin of Mitya's mother, Pyotr Alexandrovitch Miusov, happened to return from Paris. He lived for many years afterward abroad, but was at that time quite a young man, and distinguished among the Miusovs as a man of enlightened ideas and of European civilization, who had been in the capitals and abroad. Towards the end of his life he became a Liberal of the type common in the forties and fifties. In the form of his career he had come into contact with many of the virtually Liberal men of his epoch, both in Russian federation and abroad. He had known Proudhon and Bakunin personally, and in his failing years was very fond of describing the 3 days of the Paris Revolution of Feb 1848, hinting that he himself had nigh taken part in the fighting on the barricades. This was 1 of the nigh grateful recollections of his youth. He had an independent belongings of about a k souls, to reckon in the old manner. His excellent estate lay on the outskirts of our little town and bordered on the lands of our famous monastery, with which Pyotr Alexandrovitch began an endless lawsuit, well-nigh as soon as he came into the estate, concerning the rights of fishing in the river or woods-cutting in the forest, I don't know exactly which. He regarded it as his duty as a denizen and a man of culture to open an assault upon the "clericals." Hearing all about Adelaida Ivanovna, whom he, of course, remembered, and in whom he had at i time been interested, and learning of the
existence of Mitya, he intervened, in spite of all his youthful indignation and antipathy for Fyodor Pavlovitch. He made the latter'south acquaintance for the first time, and told him straight that he wished to undertake the kid's teaching. He used long afterward to tell as a characteristic touch, that when he began to speak of Mitya, Fyodor Pavlovitch looked for some time as though he did not understand what child he was talking virtually, and even as though he was surprised to hear that he had a picayune son in the business firm. The story may accept been exaggerated, withal it must take been something similar the truth.
Fyodor Pavlovitch was all his life addicted of interim, of suddenly playing an unexpected role, sometimes without any motive for doing [pg 006] so, and even to his ain direct disadvantage, as, for example, in the nowadays case. This addiction, withal, is characteristic of a very slap-up number of people, some of them very clever ones, not like Fyodor Pavlovitch. Pyotr Alexandrovitch carried the business through vigorously, and was appointed, with Fyodor Pavlovitch, articulation guardian of the child, who had a pocket-sized property, a firm and land, left him past his mother. Mitya did, in fact, pass into this cousin'south keeping, simply as the latter had no family of his ain, and after securing the revenues of his estates was in haste to render at once to Paris, he left the boy in charge of one of his cousins, a lady living in Moscow. Information technology came to pass that, settling permanently in Paris he, too, forgot the child, especially when the Revolution of Feb broke out, making an impression on his mind that he remembered all the rest of his life. The Moscow lady died, and Mitya passed into the intendance of one of her married daughters. I believe he changed his home a fourth time later. I won't overstate upon that now, equally I shall accept much to tell later on of Fyodor Pavlovitch's firstborn, and must confine myself now to the near essential facts virtually him, without which I could non begin my story.
In the outset place, this Mitya, or rather Dmitri Fyodorovitch, was the merely 1 of Fyodor Pavlovitch'southward three sons who grew up in the belief that he had property, and that he would be contained on coming of age. He spent an irregular adolescence and youth. He did not stop his studies at the gymnasium, he got into a military school, and then went to the Caucasus, was promoted, fought a duel, and was degraded to the ranks, earned promotion again, led a wild life, and spent a adept bargain of money. He did not brainstorm to receive any income from Fyodor Pavlovitch until he came of age, and until then got into debt. He saw and knew his father, Fyodor Pavlovitch, for the first time on coming of age, when he visited our neighborhood on purpose to settle with him about his property. He seems not to have liked his father. He did not stay long with him, and made haste to get away, having only succeeded in obtaining a sum of money, and inbound into an understanding for future payments from the estate, of the revenues and value of which he was unable (a fact worthy of note), upon this occasion, to get a statement from his father. Fyodor Pavlovitch remarked for the offset fourth dimension then (this, too, should exist noted) that Mitya had a vague and exaggerated idea [pg 007] of his property. Fyodor Pavlovitch was very well satisfied with this, as information technology savage in with his own designs. He gathered simply that the young man was frivolous, unruly, of violent passions, impatient, and dissipated, and that if he could only obtain ready coin he would be satisfied, although only, of form, for a short time. So Fyodor Pavlovitch began to have reward of this fact, sending him from time to time small-scale doles, installments. In the stop, when 4 years later, Mitya, losing patience, came a second fourth dimension to our little town to settle upward one time for all with his father, information technology turned out to his amazement that he had nothing, that it was difficult to go an account fifty-fifty, that he had received the whole value of his property in sums of coin from Fyodor Pavlovitch, and was perhaps even in debt to him, that by various agreements into which he had, of his own desire, entered at various previous dates, he had no right to expect anything more than, and so on, and so on. The young man was overwhelmed, suspected deceit and adulterous, and was virtually abreast himself. And, indeed, this circumstance led to the catastrophe, the account of which forms the subject of my first introductory story, or rather the external side of it. Only before I laissez passer to that story I must say a piddling of Fyodor Pavlovitch'southward other 2 sons, and of their origin.
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