Reading Schedule

[Roger]

Planned start dates:


Start Date - Part - Chapter(s) - Page Count (Penguin Classics edition)

Dec 30 - I - 1,2 - 82
Jan 6 - I - 3,4 - 87
Jan 13 - I - 5 - 55

Jan 20 - II - 1,2 - 82
Jan 27 - II - 3,4,5 - 68
Feb 3 - II - 6,7 - 77
Feb 10 - II - 8,9,10 - 51

Feb 17 - III - 1,2 - 66
Feb 24 - III - 3,4 - 50
Mar 3 - III - 5,6 - 73
Mar 10 - III - 7,8 - 51

Mar 17 - Appendix ("At Tikhon's," 39 pp.) and book as a whole


"At Tikhon's" was the original end of Part II; the publisher refused to publish it, so Dostoyevsky very reluctantly rewrote parts of the novel to compensate. It is usually published as an appendix.

[Roger]

Discussion starts this Wednesday, on chapters 1 and 2 of Part I. Get started now, or you'll be up really late on Tuesday night!