The possessed: or, The devils
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)
Cover: Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1872), oil on canvas by Vasily Perov (1834-1882) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1882)
Dostoevsky's 1872 novel, also called The Devils, in Constance Garnett's translation. A circle of provincial revolutionaries under the sinister Pyotr Verkhovensky draws in a charismatic aristocrat. Dark, comic and prophetic about political fanaticism.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Table of contents
- 1: Introductory
- 2: Prince Harry. Matchmaking
- 3: The Sins of Others
- 4: The Cripple
- 5: The Subtle Serpent
- 6: Night
- 7: NIGHT (continued)
- 8: The Duel
- 9: All in Expectation
- 10: On the Eve of the Fete
- 11: Pyotr Stepanovitch Is Busy
- 12: A Meeting
- 13: Ivan the Tsarevitch
- 14: A Raid at Stepan Trofimovitch's
- 15: Filibusters. a Fatal Morning
- 16: The Fete--First Part
- 17: The End of the Fete
- 18: A Romance Ended
- 19: The Last Chapter
- 20: A Wanderer
- 21: A Busy Night
- 22: Stepan Trofimovitch's Last Wandering
- 23: Conclusion