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The possessed — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The possessed

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • Novel
  • Book language: English
  • 689 pages

The Possessed (also The Devils) is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It follows characters in provincial Russia drawn into revolutionary and nihilistic ideas, amid questions of faith, ideology, and moral confusion. It is worth listening to for its psychological depth and portrait of a society in upheaval.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. THE POSSESSED or, The Devils
  2. Contents
  3. PART I
  4. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
  5. CHAPTER II. PRINCE HARRY. MATCHMAKING.
  6. CHAPTER III. THE SINS OF OTHERS
  7. CHAPTER IV. THE CRIPPLE
  8. CHAPTER V. THE SUBTLE SERPENT
  9. PART II
  10. CHAPTER I. NIGHT
  11. CHAPTER II. NIGHT (continued)
  12. CHAPTER III. THE DUEL
  13. CHAPTER IV. ALL IN EXPECTATION
  14. CHAPTER V. ON THE EVE OF THE FETE
  15. CHAPTER VI. PYOTR STEPANOVITCH IS BUSY
  16. CHAPTER VII. A MEETING
  17. CHAPTER VIII. IVAN THE TSAREVITCH
  18. CHAPTER IX. A RAID AT STEPAN TROFIMOVITCH’S
  19. CHAPTER X. FILIBUSTERS. A FATAL MORNING
  20. PART III
  21. CHAPTER I. THE FETE—FIRST PART
  22. CHAPTER II. THE END OF THE FETE
  23. CHAPTER III. A ROMANCE ENDED
  24. CHAPTER IV. THE LAST RESOLUTION
  25. CHAPTER V. A WANDERER
  26. CHAPTER VI. A BUSY NIGHT
  27. CHAPTER VII. STEPAN TROFIMOVITCH’S LAST WANDERING
  28. CHAPTER VIII. CONCLUSION
  29. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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