Possessed
Author: first_name: Fyodor
last_name: Dostoyevsky
Language: English
Year: 1916

Although titled <i>The Possessed</i> in the initial English translation, Dostoyevsky scholars and later translations favour the titles <i>The Devils</i> or <i>Demons</i>. An extremely political book, Demons is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. As the revolutionary democrats begin to rise in Russia, different ideologies begin to collide. Dostoyevsky casts a critical eye on both the radical idealists, portraying their ideas and ideological foundation as demonic, an