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- Chapter 1 ALEXEY Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov
- Chapter 2 YOU can easily imagine what a father such a man could be and how he
- Chapter 3 VERY shortly after getting his four-year-old Mitya off his hands Fyodor Pavlovitch married a second
- Chapter 4 HE was only twenty, his brother Ivan was in his twenty-fourth year at the time
- Chapter 5 SOME of my readers may imagine that my young man was a sickly
- Chapter 6 IT was a warm, bright day the end of August.
- Chapter 7 THEY entered the room almost at the same moment that the elder came in from
- Chapter 8 NEAR the wooden portico below, built on to the outer wall of the precinct
- Chapter 9 A visitor looking on the scene of his conversation with the peasants and his blessing
- Chapter 10 THE elder's absence from his cell had lasted for about twenty-five minutes.
- Chapter 11 DMITRI FYODOROVITCH, a young man of eight and twenty
- Chapter 12 ALYOSHA helped Father Zossima to his bedroom and seated him on his bed.
- Chapter 13 MIUSOV, as a man of breeding and delicacy, could not but feel some inward qualms
- Chapter 14 THE Karamazovs' house was far from being in the centre of the town
- Chapter 15 THERE was one circumstance which struck Grigory particularly, and confirmed a very unpleasant and revolting
- Chapter 16 ALYOSHA remained for some time irresolute after hearing the command his father shouted to him
- Chapter 17 |I was leading a wild life then.
- Chapter 18 |NOW,| said Alyosha, |I understand the first half.
- Chapter 19 HE did in fact find his father still at table.
- Chapter 20 BUT Balaam's ass had suddenly spoken.
- Chapter 21 THE controversy was over.
- Chapter 22 GRIGORY and Smerdyakov ran into the room after Dmitri.
- Chapter 23 ALYOSHA left his father's house feeling even more exhausted and dejected in spirit than when
- Chapter 24 IT was not much more than three-quarters of a mile from the town to the
- Chapter 25 ALYOSHA was roused early, before daybreak.
- Chapter 26 FIRST of all, Alyosha went to his father.
- Chapter 27 |THANK goodness he did not ask me about Grushenka
- Chapter 28 ALYOSHA soon reached Madame Hohlakov's house, a handsome stone house of two stories
- Chapter 29 BUT in the drawing-room the conversation was already over.
- Chapter 30 HE certainly was really grieved in a way he had seldom been before.
- Chapter 31 |THE air is fresh, but in my apartment it is not so in any sense
- Chapter 32 MADAME HOHLAKOV was again the first to meet Alyosha.
- Chapter 33 HE had no time to lose indeed.
- Chapter 34 IVAN was not, however, in a separate room, but only in a place shut off
- Chapter 35 |I MUST make one confession| Ivan began.
- Chapter 36 |EVEN this must have a preface -- that is
- Chapter 37 AND Ivan, on parting from Alyosha, went home to Fyodor Pavlovitch's house.
- Chapter 38 AND in the same nervous frenzy, too, he spoke.
- Chapter 39 WHEN with an anxious and aching heart Alyosha went into his elder's cell
- Chapter 40 I SPENT a long time, almost eight years, in the military cadet school at Petersburg
- Chapter 41 The Russian Monk and his possible Significance.
- Chapter 42 THE body of Father Zossima was prepared for burial according to the established Ritual.
- Chapter 43 FATHER PAISSY, of course, was not wrong when he decided that his |dear boy| would
- Chapter 44 GRUSHENKA lived in the busiest part of the town
- Chapter 45 IT was very late, according to the monastery ideas
- Chapter 46 BUT Dmitri, to whom Grushenka, flying away to a new life
- Chapter 47 SO he must drive at full speed, and he had not the money for horses.
- Chapter 48 THIS was the visit of Mitya of which Grushenka had spoken to Rakitin with such
- Chapter 49 WHERE was he running? |Where could she be except at Fyodor Pavlovitch's? She must have
- Chapter 50 SHE was sitting in the kitchen with her grandmother
- Chapter 51 BUT Dmitri Fyodorovitch was speeding along the road.
- Chapter 52 WITH his long, rapid strides, Mitya walked straight up to the table.
- Chapter 53 WHAT followed was almost an orgy, a feast to which all were welcome.
- Chapter 54 PYOTR ILYITCH PERHOTIN, whom we left knocking at the strong locked gates of the widow
- Chapter 55 OUR police captain, Mihail Makarovitch Makarov, a retired lieutenant-colonel
- Chapter 56 The First Ordeal
- Chapter 57 |YOU don't know how you encourage us, Dmitri Fyodorovitch
- Chapter 58 THOUGH Mitya spoke sullenly, it was evident that he was trying more than ever not
- Chapter 59 SOMETHING utterly unexpected and amazing to Mitya followed.
- Chapter 60 |GENTLEMEN,| he began, still in the same agitation, |I want to make a full confession
- Chapter 61 THE examination of the witnesses began.
- Chapter 62 WHEN the protocol had been signed, Nikolay Parfenovitch turned solemnly to the prisoner and read
- Chapter 63 IT was the beginning of November.
- Chapter 64 AND so on that frosty, snowy, and windy day in November
- Chapter 65 BUT Kolya did not hear her.
- Chapter 66 KOLYA leaned against the fence with an air of dignity
- Chapter 67 THE room inhabited by the family of the retired captain Snegiryov is already familiar to
- Chapter 68 |WHAT do you think the doctor will say to him?| Kolya asked quickly.
- Chapter 69 THE doctor came out of the room again, muffled in his fur coat and with
- Chapter 70 ALYOSHA went towards the cathedral square to the widow Morozov's house to see Grushenka
- Chapter 71 THE first of these things was at the house of Madame Hohlakov
- Chapter 72 GOING in to Lise, he found her half reclining in the invalid-chair
- Chapter 73 IT was quite late days are short in November when Alyosha rang at the prison
- Chapter 74 ON the way to Ivan he had to pass the house where Katerina Ivanovna was
- Chapter 75 THIS was the third time that Ivan had been to see Smerdyakov since his return
- Chapter 76 BY that time Smerdyakov had been discharged from the hospital.
- Chapter 77 WHEN he was half-way there, the keen dry wind that had been blowing early that
- Chapter 78 I AM NOT a doctor, but yet I feel that the moment has come when
- Chapter 79 ALYOSHA coming in told Ivan that a little over an hour ago Marya Kondratyevna had
- Chapter 80 AT ten o'clock in the morning of the day following the events I have described
- Chapter 81 I DO NOT know whether the witnesses for the defence and for the prosecution were
- Chapter 82 THE evidence of the medical experts, too, was of little use to the prisoner.
- Chapter 83 IT came quite as a surprise even to Alyosha himself.
- Chapter 84 I MAY note that he had been called before Alyosha.
- Chapter 85 IPPOLIT KIRILLOVITCH began his speech, trembling with nervousness, with cold sweat on his forehead
- Chapter 86 |THE medical experts have striven to convince us that the prisoner is out of his
- Chapter 87 |TO begin with, what was the source of this suspicion?| Ippolit Kirillovitch began.
- Chapter 88 IPPOLIT KIRILLOVITCH had chosen the historial method of exposition
- Chapter 89 ALL was hushed as the first words of the famous orator rang out.
- Chapter 90 THERE was one point that struck everyone in Fetyukovitch's speech.
- Chapter 91 |ALLOW me, gentlemen of the jury, to remind you that a man's life is at
- Chapter 92 |IT'S not only the accumulation of facts that threatens my client with ruin
- Chapter 93 THIS was how Fetyukovitch concluded his speech, and the enthusiasm of the audience burst like
- Chapter 94 VERY early, at nine o'clock in the morning, five days after the trial
- Chapter 95 HE hurried to the hospital where Mitya was lying now.
- Chapter 96 HE really was late.