The possessed: or, The devils

Dostoevsky's 1872 novel, also called The Devils, in Constance Garnett's translation. A circle of provincial revolutionaries under the sinister Pyotr Verkhovensky draws in a charismatic aristocrat. Dark, comic and prophetic about political fanaticism. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.