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| From the Author |
The introduction is penned by the fictional narrator, presenting only a preliminary volume of the biography of his hero,...
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| Part 1, Book 1, Chapters 1–3 |
The first three chapters provide background on the patriarch of the Karamazov family, who suffered a "dark and tragic de...
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| Part 1, Book 1, Chapters 4–5 |
In Chapter 4 Ivan is almost 24, Alyosha (Alexei) is 20, and Dmitri, 28. Alyosha dropped out of school and initially came...
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| Part 1, Book 2, Chapters 1–2 |
Zosima's visitors, arriving in two carriages, are Miusov and his distant visiting relative, young Pyotr Kalganov, and Fy...
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| Part 1, Book 2, Chapters 3–4 |
Zosima goes out to the wooden porch that has been attached to the outside wall of the hermitage so that he can receive f...
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| Part 1, Book 2, Chapters 5–6 |
Zosima is an ill man, but Alyosha sees that, despite his exhaustion, he wishes to continue the visit. When they return t...
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| Part 1, Book 2, Chapters 7–8 |
After the company leaves, Zosima instructs Alyosha to attend and charges him to leave the monastery (Chapter 7). He will...
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| Part 1, Book 3, Chapters 1–2 |
Karamazov lives in a large, ramshackle house, currently with his son Ivan (Chapter 1). The faithful servants, Grigory an...
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| Part 1, Book 3, Chapters 3–5 |
After the scene at the monastery, Alyosha heads off to see Katerina Ivanovna (Chapter 3) and accidentally runs into his ...
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| Part 1, Book 3, Chapters 6–9 |
Alyosha goes to see his father, just finishing dinner with Ivan. Karamazov makes a joke about Smerdyakov, calling him "B...
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| Part 1, Book 3, Chapters 10–11 |
In Chapter 10, Alyosha finally arrives at Katerina's by late evening. Alyosha repeats Dmitri's message, and Katerina men...
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| Part 2, Book 4, Chapters 1–2 |
Back at the monastery the next day, the elder is giving his last teachings and takes his leave of the faithful. He tells...
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| Part 2, Book 4, Chapters 3–4 |
Alyosha heads toward his next errand but is distracted by a quarrel among schoolboys. A group of them are fighting with ...
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| Part 2, Book 4, Chapters 5–7 |
At the Khokhlakovs, Katerina is in the drawing room with Ivan (Chapter 5). She claims that she has already made up her m...
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| Part 2, Book 5, Chapters 1–2 |
Alyosha has returned, as promised, to the Khokhlakovs, to continue his conversation with Lise (Chapter 1). He tells her ...
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| Part 2, Book 5, Chapters 3–4 |
Ivan is in a friendly mood, recalling how Alyosha loved cherry preserves as a child (Chapter 3). This is the first time ...
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| Part 2, Book 5, Chapter 5 |
Ivan begins his story of the Grand Inquisitor, which takes place in Seville, Spain, at the height of the Spanish Inquisi...
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| Part 2, Book 5, Chapters 6–7 |
In Chapter 6, Ivan reluctantly returns to his father's house for the last time, feeling "anguish to the point of nausea....
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| Part 2, Book 6, Chapters 1–3 |
When Alyosha arrives back at the elder's cell, he finds a gathering of monks who have come to hear Zosima's final words ...
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| Part 3, Book 7, Chapters 1–2 |
Many people both inside and outside the monastery are excitedly waiting for a sign of Zosima's blessedness, and although...
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| Part 3, Book 7, Chapters 3–4 |
Grushenka rents a cottage from relatives of Samsonov, who brought her to that place four years previously as a poor, ski...
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| Part 3, Book 8, Chapters 1–3 |
For the past two days, Dmitri has been trying to raise the cash he needs to repay Katerina (Chapter 1). Dmitri visits Sa...
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| Part 3, Book 8, Chapters 4–5 |
Wild with jealousy, Dmitri runs to his father's house to find Grushenka (Chapter 4). He climbs over the garden fence and...
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| Part 3, Book 8, Chapters 6–8 |
In Chapter 6, Dmitri's troika driver Andrei is galloping at full speed to Mokroye, and Dmitri rereads his suicide note, ...
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| Part 3, Book 9, Chapters 1–3 |
Chapters 1 and 2 return to earlier in the night. Pyotr goes back to Grushenka's to speak to her servant, Fenya, who tell...
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| Part 3, Book 9, Chapters 4–6 |
Dmitri provides the prosecutor and district attorney with a history of his attempts to get 3,000 rubles (Chapter 4). He ...
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| Part 3, Book 9, Chapters 7–9 |
Dmitri tells the interrogators about appropriating the 3,000 rubles from Katerina and squandering half of it the previou...
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| Part 4, Book 10, Chapters 1–3 |
The next seven chapters return to the story of Ilyusha, Alyosha (now out of the monastery and dressing in secular fashio...
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| Part 4, Book 10, Chapters 4–5 |
When Kolya meets Alyosha, he tells him how he befriended Ilyusha and defended him against the other boys (Chapter 4). Ko...
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| Part 4, Book 10, Chapters 6–7 |
Since the doctor has come, everyone temporarily leaves, and Kolya and Alyosha have a conversation (Chapter 6). Kolya has...
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| Part 4, Book 11, Chapters 1–2 |
The Karamazov story is resumed in Book 11. Several weeks have passed, and Dmitri is waiting for trial (Chapter 1). Grush...
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| Part 4, Book 11, Chapters 3–4 |
When Alyosha visits with Lise, she shares with him her violent fantasies to hurt and destroy (Chapter 3), and Alyosha un...
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| Part 4, Book 11, Chapters 5–6 |
Alyosha sets off to find Ivan, and when he sees Katerina's lights on, he thinks to stop there first. He finds Ivan ready...
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| Part 4, Book 11, Chapters 7–8 |
Ivan meets Smerdyakov a second time in his room at Maria Kondratievna's (Chapter 7). He asks Smerdyakov to elaborate on ...
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| Part 4, Book 11, Chapters 9–10 |
The narrator notes that Ivan was on the verge of brain fever the night before the trial (Chapter 9). He wakes up and not...
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| Part 4, Book 12, Chapters 1–3 |
On the first day of the trial, the courtroom is packed, and the famous lawyer Fetyukovich is defending Dmitri (Chapter 1...
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| Part 4, Book 12, Chapters 4–5 |
Alyosha is called to testify, and he suddenly remembers how his brother beat on and pointed to his chest, telling him he...
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| Part 4, Book 12, Chapters 6–9 |
The prosecutor's long summation recaps the history of the Karamazov family, equating it to Russia because the family mem...
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| Part 4, Book 12, Chapters 10–12 |
In Fetyukovich's closing argument, he stresses that, while the evidence seems conclusive, each "fact," when looked at se...
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| Part 4, Book 12, Chapters 13–14 |
Toward the end of his summation, Fetyukovich changes his tactics and tries to generate sympathy for Dmitri as an abused ...
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| Epilogue, Chapters 1–2 |
Unconscious Ivan is being cared for by Katerina (Chapter 1). He had left her the plan for Dmitri's escape, along with mo...
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| Epilogue, Chapter 3 |
The last chapter of the novel describes the funeral of Ilyusha. By now, Kolya has taken charge of the boys, who are wait...
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