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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

23 hrs to read

Type: Fiction

Year published: 1879

Total length: 23 hrs (348029 words)

Average chapter length: 14 mins (3588 words)

Contents

1 min

Book I - The History of a Family

I - Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov

5 mins

II - He Gets Rid of His Eldest Son

5 mins

III - The Second Marriage and the Second Family

10 mins

IV - The Third Son, Alyosha

14 mins

14 mins

Book II - An Unfortunate Gathering

I - They Arrive at the Monastery

7 mins

II - The Old Buffoon

14 mins

III - Peasant Women Who Have Faith

12 mins

IV - A Lady of Little Faith

12 mins

V - So Be It! So Be It!

14 mins

VI - Why Is Such a Man Alive?

15 mins

VII - A Young Man Bent on a Career

13 mins

VIII - The Scandalous Scene

14 mins

Book III - The Sensualists

I - In the Servants’ Quarters

8 mins

6 mins

III - The Confession of a Passionate Heart⁠—In Verse

12 mins

IV - The Confession of a Passionate Heart⁠—In Anecdote

13 mins

V - The Confession of a Passionate Heart⁠—“Heels Up”

13 mins

VI - Smerdyakov

8 mins

VII - The Controversy

8 mins

VIII - Over the Brandy

11 mins

IX - The Sensualists

8 mins

X - Both Together

17 mins

XI - Another Reputation Ruined

10 mins

Book IV - Lacerations

I - Father Ferapont

16 mins

II - At His Father’s

7 mins

III - A Meeting with the Schoolboys

7 mins

IV - At the Hohlakovs’

9 mins

V - A Laceration in the Drawing-Room

18 mins

VI - A Laceration in the Cottage

13 mins

VII - And in the Open Air

17 mins

Book V - Pro and Contra

I - The Engagement

17 mins

II - Smerdyakov with a Guitar

9 mins

III - The Brothers Make Friends

15 mins

19 mins

V - The Grand Inquisitor

36 mins

VI - For Awhile a Very Obscure One

17 mins

VII - “It’s Always Worth While Speaking to a Clever Man”

13 mins

Book VI - The Russian Monk

I - Father Zossima and His Visitors

25 mins

36 mins

III - Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima

24 mins

Book VII - Alyosha

I - The Breath of Corruption

20 mins

II - A Critical Moment

9 mins

31 mins

IV - Cana of Galilee

8 mins

Book VIII - Mitya

I - Kuzma Samsonov

19 mins

11 mins

III - Goldmines

18 mins

IV - In the Dark

9 mins

V - A Sudden Resolution

25 mins

VI - “I Am Coming, Too!”

12 mins

VII - The First and Rightful Lover

25 mins

VIII - Delirium

21 mins

Book IX - The Preliminary Investigation

I - The Beginning of Perhotin’s Official Career

11 mins

10 mins

III - The Sufferings of a Soul, the First Ordeal

14 mins

IV - The Second Ordeal

12 mins

V - The Third Ordeal

17 mins

VI - The Prosecutor Catches Mitya

12 mins

VII - Mitya’s Great Secret. Received with Hisses

19 mins

VIII - The Evidence of the Witnesses. The Babe

15 mins

IX - They Carry Mitya Away

6 mins

Book X - The Boys

I - Kolya Krassotkin

8 mins

9 mins

III - The Schoolboy

11 mins

IV - The Lost Dog

13 mins

V - By Ilusha’s Bedside

26 mins

10 mins

5 mins

I - At Grushenka’s

15 mins

II - The Injured Foot

17 mins

III - A Little Demon

10 mins

IV - A Hymn and a Secret

22 mins

V - Not You, Not You!

8 mins

VI - The First Interview with Smerdyakov

15 mins

VII - The Second Visit to Smerdyakov

14 mins

VIII - The Third and Last Interview with Smerdyakov

25 mins

IX - The Devil. Ivan’s Nightmare

31 mins

X - “It Was He Who Said That”

9 mins

Book XII - A Judicial Error

I - The Fatal Day

11 mins

II - Dangerous Witnesses

15 mins

III - The Medical Experts and a Pound of Nuts

9 mins

IV - Fortune Smiles on Mitya

15 mins

V - A Sudden Catastrophe

16 mins

VI - The Prosecutor’s Speech. Sketches of Character

16 mins

VII - An Historical Survey

8 mins

VIII - A Treatise on Smerdyakov

16 mins

IX - The Galloping Troika. The End of the Prosecutor’s Speech

18 mins

X - The Speech for the Defense. An Argument That Cuts Both Ways

6 mins

XI - There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery

11 mins

XII - And There Was No Murder Either

13 mins

XIII - A Corrupter of Thought

13 mins

XIV - The Peasants Stand Firm

10 mins

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