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1879

THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV

by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

translated by Constance Garnett

PART I



Book I

The History of a Family



Chapter 1

Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov



ALEXEY Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor

Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his

own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and

tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall

describe in its proper place. For the present I will only say that

this "landowner"- for so we used to call him, although he hardly spent

a day of his life on his own estate- was a strange type, yet one

pretty frequently to be met with, a type abject and vicious and at the

same time senseless. But he was one of those senseless persons who are

very well capable of looking after their worldly affairs, and,

apparently, after nothing else. Fyodor Pavlovitch, for instance, began

with next to nothing; his estate was of the smallest; he ran to dine

at other men's tables, and fastened on them as a toady, yet at his