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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 th . . .