The Possessed

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Ivan Shishkin, Vladimir Makovsky and Vasily Perov. A provincial Russian town receives a group of young radicals, and within a season there are arson, scandal and a body in the park. Dostoevsky built the novel on a real murder — a student killed by his own revolutionary cell — and wrote it as a warning that has been read as a prophecy ever since....