Brothers Karamazov

Outline

Part One

• Book I: The History of a Certain Family
  • Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov
  • He Gets Rid of His First Son
  • The Second Marriage and the Second Family
  • The Third Son, Alyosha
  • Elders

• Book II: An Unfortunate Gathering
  • They Arrive at the Monastery
  • The Old Buffoon
  • Peasant Women Who Have Faith
  • A Lady of Little Faith
  • So Be It! So Be It!
  • Why Is Such a Man Alive?
  • A Seminarist-Careerist
  • Scandal

• Book III: The Sensualists
  • In the Servants' Quarters
  • Lizaveta Smerdyashchaya
  • The Confession of an Ardent Heart. In Verse
  • The Confession of an Ardent Heart. In Anecdote
  • The Confession of an Ardent Heart. "Heels Up"
  • Smerdyakov
  • The Controversy
  • Over the Brandy
  • The Sensualists
  • Both Together
  • Another Reputation Ruined

Part Two

• Book IV: Lacerations (or Strains)
  • Father Ferapont
  • At His Father's
  • He Gets Involved with Schoolboys
  • At the Khokhlakovs'
  • A Laceration in the Drawing Room
  • A Laceration in the Cottage
  • And in the Fresh Air

• Book V: Pro and Contra
  • The Engagement
  • Smerdyakov with a Guitar
  • The Brothers Get Acquainted
  • Rebellion
  • The Grand Inquisitor
  • For Awhile A Very Obscure One
  • "It's Always Interesting to Talk with an Intelligent Man"

• Book VI: The Russian Monk
  • Elder Zosima and His Visitors
  • From the Life of the Hieromonk Elder Zosima, Departed in God... (Composed from his own words by Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov)
  • From Talks and Homilies of Elder Zosima

Part Three

• Book VII: Alyosha
  • The Odor of Corruption
  • An Opportune Moment
  • An Onion
  • Cana of Galilee

• Book VIII: Mitya
  • Kuzma Samsonov
  • Lyagavy
  • Gold Mines
  • In the Dark
  • A Sudden Decision
  • "I Am Coming, Too!"
  • The First and Foremost One
  • Delirium

• Book IX: The Preliminary Investigation
  • The Beginning of Perkhotin's Official Career
  • The Alarm
  • The Soul's Journey Through Torments. The First Torment
  • The Second Torment
  • The Third Torment
  • The Prosecutor Catches Mitya
  • Mitya's Great Secret. They Mock Him
  • The Testimony of the Witnesses. The Babe.
  • They Carry Mitya Away

Part Four

• Book X: The Boys
  • Kolya Krasotkin
  • Kids
  • The Schoolboy
  • Zhuchka
  • At Ilyusha's Bedside
  • Precociousness
  • Ilyusha

• Book XI: Ivan
  • At Grushenka's
  • A Sick Little Foot
  • A Little Demon
  • A Hymn and a Secret
  • Not You! Not You!
  • The First Visit to Smerdyakov
  • The Second Visit to Smerdyakov
  • The Third and Last Visit to Smerdyakov
  • The Devil. Ivan Fyodorovich's Nightmare
  • "It Was He Who Said That"

• Book XII: A Judicial Error
  • The Fatal Day
  • Dangerous Witnesses
  • The Medical Expertise and a Pound of Nuts
  • Fortune Smiles on Mitya
  • A Sudden Catastrophe
  • The Prosecutor's Speech. Characterizations
  • An Historical Survey
  • A Treatise on Smerdyakov
  • Psychology at Full Steam. The Galloping Troika. The Finale of the Prosecutor's Speech.
  • The Defense Attorney's Speech. An Argument That Cuts Both Ways.
  • There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery.
  • And There Was No Murder Either
  • An Adulterer of Thought
  • The Peasants Stand Firm

Epilogue

• Plans to Save Mitya
• For a Moment the Lie Becomes Truth
• Ilyusha's Funeral. The Speech at the Stone