The Possessed

By Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Or The Devils. Translated From The Russian By Constance Garnett. “Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.” 1872 (Russian)

A Read-Me.Org classic reprint. 1916 (English). 718p.