The Devils
Series: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
Language: eng
Translation of: Бесы
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780140440355
Copyright date: 1971
Description: The Devils, or The Posessed, is the most controversial of Dostoyevsky's masterpieces. A political drama, it has been both hailed as a grim prophesy of the Russian Revolution and denounced as the work of a reactionary renegade. The book is a penetrating commentary on men and affairs, with malicious caricatures of revolutionaries and revolutionary personalities. It is also a work of tragic intensity; Dostoyevsky, tormented by the conflict between good and evil, probed into the very recesses of the mind to discover the dark passions of men.

'Stavrogin's Confession', the section omitted when the novel first appeared, has been added as an appendix in this volume.

~from the back cover
Notes: Reprint, UK / AUST / NZ / CAN edition