Dostoyevsky, F.: The Brothers Karamazov (Abridged)

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The Brothers Karamazov (more info)
Fyodor Mikhail Dostoyevsky,
Tim Pigott-Smith, reader


1. Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov - 4:18
2. You can easily imagine what a father such a man could be - 5:20
3. Very shortly after getting his four-year-old Mitya off his hands - 3:32
4. It happened that the old lady died soon after this - 5:54
5. Alyosha was only twenty - 3:58
6. At the time of Yefim Petrovitich's death - 3:17
7. 'Do you know,' he used often to say - 3:50
8. Some of my readers may imagine - 3:53
9. It was a warm, bright day the end of August - 2:08
10. Dimitri Fyodorovitch, a young man of eight and twenty - 3:41
11. 'They all blame me, all of them!' - 3:51
12. 'Dimitri Fyodorovitch', yelled Fyodor Pavlovitch suddenly - 2:27
13. Alyosha helped Father Zossima to his bedroom - 3:21
14. The house of Fyodor Pavlovitch was far from being in the centre of the town - 2:58
15. There was one circumstance which struck Grigory particularly - 2:53
16. Alyosha set off from the monastery - 3:32
17. I was leading a wild life then - 4:20
18. Suddenly the new major arrive to take command of the battalion - 2:47
19. 'Stop Dimitri,' said Alyosha - 4:12
20. 'Stop, Dimitri,' Alyosha interrupted again - 4:30
21. 'And what then?' - 4:35

The Brothers Karamazov (more info)
Fyodor Mikhail Dostoyevsky,
Tim Pigott-Smith, reader


1. He found his father still at table - 4:14
2. 'Get along with you!' - 2:55
3. Dimitri suddenly reapeared in the drawing-room - 3:05
4. It was by now seven o'clock, and it was getting dark - 4:08
5. 'I've known of it a long time;' - 4:05
6. 'This is the first time we've met, Alexey Fyodorovitch,' - 5:14
7. There was a sudden gleam in her eyes. - 3:35
8. It was not much more than three-quarters of a mile - 2:38
9. Alyosha described all that had happened - 3:43
10. Alyosha was roused early, before daybreak - 4:09
11. And bending down to Alyosha - 2:56
12. Just after he had crossed the square - 4:34
13. The boy waited for him without budging - 4:05
14. When Alyosha entered the drawing-room - 4:35
15. 'Alexey Fyodorovitch, you speak' - 4:09
16. He went out of the room without saying goodbye - 2:31
17. He was really grieved in a way he had seldom been before - 4:00
18. Alyosha looked attentively at him - 4:29
19. 'You've pierced me to the heart,' - 2:27
20. 'Have you heard our news?' - 3:35
21. 'The air is fresh,' - 3:59

The Brothers Karamazov (more info)
Fyodor Mikhail Dostoyevsky,
Tim Pigott-Smith, reader


1. Alyosha's heart was trembling - 3:36
2. Alyosha was delighted - 3:34
3. Ivan was on his way home to Fyodor Pavlovitch's house - 4:14
4. 'Why don't you go to Tchermashnya, sir?' - 3:40
5. 'I'm bound to admit the fact, - 4:14
6. 'You know yourself why he'll come.' - 3:10
7. 'You seem to be a perfect idiot,' - 2:50
8. And in the same nervous frenzy, too, he spoke - 5:08
9. The whole household came out to take leave - 4:05
10. Grushenka lived in the busiest part of town - 4:53
11. She gaily sat down beside Alyosha on the sofa, - 5:24
12. But Dimitri, to whom Grushenka - 3:57
13. Mitya formed a plan of action: - 4:11
14. At that very moment Grigory waked up on his bed of sickness - 2:59
15. Fenya, the housemaid, was sitting in the kitchen - 5:21
16. It was a little more than twenty versts to Mokroe, - 5:50
17. With his long rapid strides - 4:10
18. Mitya had been, all this time, holding in his hand - 4:18
19. Both the Poles rose from their seats with a deeply offended air - 3:34

The Brothers Karamazov (more info)
Fyodor Mikhail Dostoyevsky,
Tim Pigott-Smith, reader


1. But Grushenka suddenly lost all patience - 4:08
2. What followed was almost an orgy, a feast to which all were welcome - 4:24
3. Yet there was a ray of light and hope in his darkness - 4:18
4. 'The lady's been drinking.' - 3:19
5. Grushenka opened her eyes - 4:51
6. Pyotr Ilyitch Perhotin, to whom Dimitri had pawned his pistol - 2:50
7. Our police captain, Mihail Makarovitch Mararov - 3:22
8. Pyotr Ilyitch was simply dumbfounded - 5:46
9. The deputy police inspector of the town - 4:11
10. And so Mitya sat looking wildly at the people round him - 4:06
11. 'Alive? He's alive?' cried Mitya - 4:20
12. 'Did I exclaim that?' - 4:03
13. At that moment another unexpected scene followed - 4:28
14. 'You don't know how you encourage us' - 3:44
15. 'That's how we've treated you from the beginning' - 3:48
16. Mitya waited gloomily - 5:04
17. Though Mitya spoke sullenly - 4:17
18. And so, on that frosty, snowy, and windy day in November - 4:37
19. But Kolya did not hear her. - 5:25

The Brothers Karamazov (more info)
Fyodor Mikhail Dostoyevsky,
Tim Pigott-Smith, reader


1. Next came the account of Mitya's sudden determination - 4:13
2. Mitya smiled mournfully, almost dreamily - 4:08
3. Something utterly unexpected and amazing to Mitya followed - 4:25
4. It was a long time before they could persuade him - 3:48
5. Mitya uttered his sudden monologue - 3:40
6. For some seconds Mitya stood as though thunderstruck - 4:03
7. 'Gentlemen' he began - 3:56
8. 'Allow me to inquire' observed the prosecutor at last - 4:26
9. Both the lawyers laughed aloud - 5:04
10. 'You'd better show us the remains of it.' - 3:43
11. The examination of the witnesses began - 3:47
12. The Poles, too, were examined - 4:10
13. Ippolit Kirillovitch was very well satisfied with this piece of evidence - 3:42
14. When the protocol had been signed - 4:57
15. It was the beginning of November - 4:14
16. It happened that July - 3:20
17. Dardanelov was a middle-aged bachelor - 3:19
18. And so, on that frosty, snowy, and windy day in November - 4:37
19. But Kolya did not hear her. - 5:25

The Brothers Karamazov (more info)
Fyodor Mikhail Dostoyevsky,
Tim Pigott-Smith, reader


1. 'Listen, Karamazov, I'll tell you all about it.' - 3:52
2. One day he flew at them all as they were coming out of school - 5:17
3. The room inhabited by the family of the retired captain - 3:48
4. Krassotkin's entrance made a general sensation - 4:56
5. Ilusha could not speak - 4:18
6. When the doctor came out of the room - 6:15
7. Alyosha went towards the cathedral square - 4:23
8. 'He doesn't love Katerina Ivanovna,' said Alyosha firmly - 3:12
9. Alyosha sat plunged in thought, considering something - 3:25
10. It was quite late when Alyosha rang at the prison gate - 3:15
11. He went up to Alyosha exictedly and kissed him - 3:08
12. 'Of that later; now I must speak of something else - 4:33
13. On the way to Ivan he had to pass the house where Katerina Ivanovna was living - 4:58
14. 'Who is the murderer then, according to you?' - 5:36
15. This was the third time that Ivan had been to see Smerdyakov - 4:18
16. 'Tell me now, why did you send me then to Tchermashnya?' - 3:48
17. Later, Smerdyakov had been discharged from the hospital - 4:25
18. Smerdyakov took the rag from his eyes - 5:58

The Brothers Karamazov (more info)
Fyodor Mikhail Dostoyevsky,
Tim Pigott-Smith, reader


1. Ivan did not go home - 4:27
2. When he was half-way there - 4:01
3. Smerdyakov was not in the least scared - 3:54
4. Ivan stepped up to the table - 6:09
5. 'What more is there to tell!' - 6:05
6. He stopped. Ivan had listeded all the time - 4:02
7. 'I don't want it,' Smerdyakov articulated in a shaking voice - 3:54
8. A loud, persistent knocking was suddenly heard at the window - 4:44
9. Alyosha ran to the washing stand - 6:05
10. At ten o'clock in the morning of the day following the events - 3:04
11. At last the President opened the case of the murder of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karmazov - 3:14
12. One peculiar characteristic of the case - 3:56
13. Grigory remained silent - 4:13
14. It came as quite a surprise even to Alyosha himself - 4:39
15. Katerina Ivanovna was called to the witness box - 4:04
16. I am approaching the sudden catastrophe - 3:59
17. I may note that he had been called before Alyosha - 3:44
18. The usher of the court took the whole roll - 4:13

The Brothers Karamazov (more info)
Fyodor Mikhail Dostoyevsky,
Tim Pigott-Smith, reader


1. The whole court was thrown into confusion - 4:37
2. They asked Mitya whether he admitted having written the letter - 5:22
3. Ippolit Kirillovitch began his speech - 3:29
4. 'But to return to the eldest son.' - 3:56
5. At this point Ippolit Kirillovitch broke off - 3:13
6. 'I shall be told that he shamed illness' - 3:27
7. As Fetyukovitc, the Council for the Defence began his speech - 4:18
8. 'But I shall be asked' - 4:53
9. 'Allow me, gentlemen of the jury, to remind you' - 2:57
10. 'In the first place we have Smerdyakov's sudden suicide - 3:30
11. 'It's not only the accumulation of facts - 3:25
12. 'Gentlemen of the jury, you remember that awful night - 4:36
13. This was how Fetyukovitch concluded his speech - 4:38
14. Very early, at nine o'clock in the morning - 4:18
15. He hurried to the hospital where Mitya was now lying - 4:10
16. At that instant Katya appeared in the doorway. - 5:06
17. He really was late - 4:02
18. They reached the church at last - 4:41
19. They all stood still by the big stone - 4:46

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