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

xxiv, 630 pp. Original cloth, gilt and 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.