The Brother's Karamazov (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)
A Russian Family Tragedy of Faith, Doubt, Free Will, and RedemptionBy Fyodor Dostoevsky
Length38h 41m
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Fyodor Dostoevsky's *The Brothers Karamazov*, presented here in Constance Garnett's unabridged translation, is a vast philosophical and psychological novel centered on the volatile Karamazov family: the sensual Dmitri, the intellectual Ivan, the devout Alyosha, and their dissolute father, Fyodor Pavlovich. Combining courtroom drama, theological disputation, family tragedy, comic grotesquerie, and spiritual autobiography, the novel explores faith and doubt, free will, guilt, suffering, and moral responsibility. Its polyphonic structure—shifting among competing voices rather than imposing a single authoritative vision—places it at the summit of nineteenth-century Russian realism and anticipates the ethical and existential concerns of modern literature. Garnett's fluent English preserves the work's narrative breadth and impassioned intensity. Dostoevsky (1821–1881) wrote from a life marked by political persecution, imprisonment, forced labor in Siberia, epilepsy, financial hardship, and profound religious questioning. These experiences informed his acute interest in moral freedom, psychological extremity, and the consequences of abstract ideas when tested by lived suffering. His engagement with Russian Orthodoxy, European intellectual movements, and the social upheavals of his age shaped a novel in which private conflict becomes a searching inquiry into the destiny of humanity. This is an indispensable book for readers of serious fiction, moral philosophy, theology, and psychology. Demanding yet richly rewarding, it invites repeated reading, since each character and argument opens new interpretive possibilities. Its dramatic power and intellectual reach make it not merely a classic, but a continuing challenge to the conscience of the modern reader.
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length38 hrs 41 mins
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Publish dateSep 20, 2013
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Baronet's Song & The Shepherd's Castle (Adventure Classics) (Annotated)
2Part I
3Book I The History of a Family
4Book II An Unfortunate Gathering
5Chapter 1 They Arrive at the Monastery
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6Chapter 2 The Old Buffoon
7Chapter 3 Peasant Women Who Have Faith
8Chapter 4 A Lady of Little Faith
9Chapter 5 So Be It! So Be It!
10Chapter 6 Why Is Such a Man Alive?
11Chapter 7 A Young Man Bent on a Career
12Chapter 8 The Scandalous Scene
13Book III The Sensualists
14Chapter 1 In the Servants’ Quarters
15Chapter 2 Lizaveta
16Chapter 3 The Confession of a Passionate Heart — in Verse
17Chapter 4 The Confession of a Passionate Heart — In Anecdote
18Chapter 5 The Confession of a Passionate Heart — “Heels Up”
19Chapter 6 Smerdyakov
20Chapter 7 The Controversy
21Chapter 8 Over the Brandy
22Chapter 9 The Sensualists
23Chapter 10 Both Together
24Chapter 11 Another Reputation Ruined
25Part II
26Book IV Lacerations
27Chapter 1 Father Ferapont
28Chapter 2 At His Father’s
29Chapter 3 A Meeting with the Schoolboys
30Chapter 4 At the Hohlakovs’
31Chapter 5 A Laceration in the Drawing-Room
32Chapter 6 A Laceration in the Cottage
33Chapter 7 And in the Open Air
34Book V Pro and Contra
35Chapter 1 The Engagement
36Chapter 2 Smerdyakov with a Guitar
37Chapter 3 The Brothers Make Friends
38Chapter 4 Rebellion
39Chapter 5 The Grand Inquisitor
40Chapter 6 For Awhile a Very Obscure One
41Chapter 7 “It’s Always Worth While Speaking to a Clever Man”
42Book VI The Russian Monk.
43Chapter 1 Father Zossima and His Visitors
44Chapter 2 Notes of the Life of the deceased Priest and Monk, the Elder Zossima, taken from his own words by Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov.
45Chapter 3 Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima
46Part III
47Book VII Alyosha
48Chapter 1 The Breath of Corruption
49Chapter 2 A Critical Moment
50Chapter 3 An Onion
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