Contemporary quarter Russian sheep over marbled boards. Binding slightly rubbed occasional light foxing, stronger at beginning and end, owner's signature in blue ink to half-title and quote leaf with half-titles.

The master of intrigue, cunning, clever and cunning, while often portraying himself as a jester. Formed in the city 'revolutionary five', the organizer and chief executor of the murder of Shatov. ***Customers considering purchasing this item will be given a longer, much more detailed note on the work, its background, its influence*** Three parts in one volume 8vo (21.4 x 15.5 cm). Peter Stepanovich Verkhovensky is the son of Stepan Trofimovich, a young man of about twenty-seven. 'As a political tract, a portrayal of sick minds, and a study of the manipulation of groups, 'The Possessed' remains Dostoevsky's masterpiece' (Terras). The serialisation of this work, in Katkov's periodical The Russian Messenger, broke down when Katkov refused to print 'Stavrogin's Confession', an episode which he found particularly shocking. It is his most overtly political work, and a ruthless exposition of contemporary revolutionary movements.

Besy captures 'the full grandeur of Dostoevsky's extraordinary endeavor, which is nothing less than to write a symbolic history of the moral-spiritual travails of the Russian spirit' (Frank, pp.430-434). Demons is an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. One of Dostoevsky's great novels, and the first of his books published by Dostoevsky himself. This carefully crafted ebook: Demons (The Possessed / The Devils) - The Unabridged Garnett Translation is. Very good example of the first edition, in contemporary binding rare such.

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