The Devils, or The Posessed, is the most controversial of Dostoyevsky's masterpieces. A political drama, it has been both hailed as a grim prophesy of the Russian Revolution and denounced as the work of a reactionary renegade. The book is a penetrating commentary on men and affairs, with malicious caricatures of revolutionaries and revolutionary personalities. It is also a work of tragic intensity; Dostoyevsky, tormented by the conflict between good and evil, probed into the very recesses of the mind to discover the dark passions of men.
'Stavrogin's Confession', the section omitted when the novel first appeared, has been added as an appendix in this volume.
~from the back cover
Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky; David Magarshack (Translator)
Series: Penguin Classics
Edition: Reprint, UK / AUST / NZ / CAN
Publisher: Penguin Books
Year: 1971
Language: English
Pages: 704
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
CONTENTS
Translator's Introduction
Epigraph
Part One
1. By way of an Introduction...
2. Prince Harry. A Marriage Proposal
3. Another Man's Sins
4. The Cripple
5. The Wise Serpent
Part Two
1. Night
2. Night (continued)
3. The Duel
4. All Agog
5. Before the Fête
6. Peter Verkhovensky is Busy
7. At Virginsky's
8. Ivan the Crown-Prince
9. Stepan Verkhovensky is Raided
10. Filibusters. A Fatal Morning
Part Three
1. The Fête. Part One
2. The End of the Fête
3. The End of a Love Affair
4. The Last Decision
5. The Globe Trotter
6. A Very Busy Night
7. Stepan Verkhovensky's Last Pilgrimage
8. Conclusion
Appendix: Stavrogin's Confession
