The great psychologist had a presentiment of his vocation:all his creative work is devoted to the mystery of man. In Dostoevsky's novels there are no landscapes and pictures of nature.He portrays only man and man's world; his heroes are people from contemporary urban civilization, fallen out of the natural world-order and torn away from "living life." The writer prided himself on his realism; he was describing not the abstract "universal man," contrived by J. J. Rousseau, but the real European of the 19th century with all the endless contradictions of his "sick consciousness."

In 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov,the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist; Ivan, the intellectual;Alyosha, the mystic; and twisted, cunning Smerdyakov, the bastard child. Frequently lurid, nightmarish, always brilliant, the novel plunges the reader into a sordid love triangle, a pathological obsession, and a gripping courtroom drama. But throughout the whole, Dostoevsky searches for the truth--about man, about life, about the existence of God. A terrifying answer to man's eternal questions, this monumental work remains the crowning achievement of perhaps the finest novelist of all time.

Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov.

Author's Preface

PART ONE

BOOK I: A PECULIAR FAMILY HISTORY

1. Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov

2. He Gets Rid of His Eldest Son

3. The Second Marriage and the Second Family

4. The Third Sou--Alyosha

5. Elders

BOOK II: AN INCONGRUOUS GATHERING

1. They Arrive at the Monastery

2. The Old Buffoon

3. Women of Great Faith

4. A Lady of Little Faith

5. So It Shall Be and So Be It！

6. Why Should Such a Man Live？

7. A Career-conscious Divinity Student

8. A Scandalous Scene

BOOK III: THE SENSUALISTS

1. In the Servants' Quarters

2. Reeking Lizaveta

3: The Confession of an Ardent Heart in Verse

4. The Confession of an Ardent Heart in Prose

5. The Confession of an Ardent Heart: Head over Heels

6. Smerdyakov

7. The Debate

8. Over Brandy

9. The Sensualists

10. Two Women Meet

11. One More Reputation Ruined

PART TWO

BOOK IV: TORMENT

1. Father Ferapont

2. Alyosha in His Father's House

3. Alyosha Gets Involved with Schoolboys

4. At the Khokhlakovs

5. Heartbreak in the Drawing Room

6. Heartbreak in a Hovel

7. Heartbreak Outdoors

BOOK V: PRO AND CONTRA

1. An Engagement

2. Smerdyakov and His Guitar

3. The Brothers Get Acquainted

4. Rebellion

5. The Grand Inquisitor

6. Still Unclear

7. It's Always Rewarding to Talk to a Clever Man

BOOK VI: A RUSSIAN MONK

1. The Elder Zosima and His Guests

2. From the Life of the Deceased Monk and Priest, the Elder

 Zosima, as Taken Down from His Own Words by Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov

  Biographical Notes

  A. The Youth Who Was Elder Zosima's Brother

  B. The Holy Bible in Father Zosima's Life

  C. Reminiscences of Elder Zosima's Worldly Youth. The Duel

  D. The Mysterious Visitor

3. Some Thoughts and Teachings of the Elder Zosima

  E. A Few Thoughts on the Russian Monk and His Potential Role

E Of Masters and Servants and of Whether They Can Become Brothers in Spirit

G. Of Prayer, Love, and Ties with Other Worlds

H. Can A Man Judge His Fellow Men？ Of Faith to the End

I. Of Hell and Hell Fire, a Mystical Discourse

PART THREE

BOOK VII: ALYOSHA

1. The Smell of Decay

2. The Crucial Moment

3. One Onion

4. Cana of Galilee

BOOK VIII: MITYA

1. Kuzma Samsonov

2. The Hound

3. The Gold Mines

4. In the Dark

5. A Sudden Resolution

6. I'm Coming！

7. The First and Rightful One

8. Delirium

BOOK IX: PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION

1. Peter Perkhotin Starts Out on His Career as Civil Servant

2. Alarm

3. From Ordeal to Ordeal: The First Ordeal

4. The Second Ordeal

5. The Third Ordeal

6. The Prosecutor Catches Mitya

7'. Mitya Reveals His Secret and Is Heckled

8. The Testimony of the Witnesses. The Babe

9. They Take Him Away

PART FOUR

BOOK X: THE BOYS

1. Kolya Krasotkin

2. The Children

3. The Schoolboys

4. Juchka

5. At Ilyusha's Bedside

6. Precosciousness

7. Ilyusha

BOOK XI: IVAN

1. At Grushenka's

2. The Injured Foot

3. The Hell Kitten

4. A Hymn and a Secret

5. Not You, Not You！

6. The First Meeting with Smerdyakov

7. The Second Meeting with Smerdyakov

8. The Third and Last Meeting with Smerdyak0v

9. Ivan's Nightmare and the Devil

10. It Was He Who Said That

BOOK XII: MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE

1. The Fatal Day

2. Dangerous Witnesses

3. The Medical Experts and a Pound of Nuts

4. Things Look Up for Mitya

5. Sudden Disaster

6. The Public Prosecutor's Speech. Psychological Portrayals

7. A Chronological Survey

8. A Treatise on Smerdyakov

9. Full Steam Ahead into Psychology. A Galloping Troika. The Finale of the Prosecutor's Speech

10. The Summation of the Defense. An Argument That Cuts Both Ways

11. There Was No Money and No Robbery

12. No Murder Either

13. Corrupters of Thought

14. Our Good Old Peasants Stand Their Ground

EPILOGUE

1. Plans to Save Mitya

2. A Lie Temporarily Becomes the Truth

3. Ilyusha's Funeral. The Speech by the Stone.