The Possessed: Including the Suppressed Chapter, Stavrogin's Confession [Demons] [Devils]

xxiv, 630 pp. Original cloth, gilt & silver titles and decorations. Beautiful wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. The Constance Garnett translation of Dostoevsky's classic novel, sometimes also translated as The Devils, or Demons. A political novel of Imperial Russia in the late 19th century, criticizing liberal idealists as well as the conservative establishment's reaction to them, and portraying utopian and positivist ideas as unrealistic.