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Title: The Possessed
or, The Devils

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Translator: Constance Garnett

Release Date: May, 2005 [EBook #8117]
Posting Date: August 13, 2010

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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THE POSSESSED (The Devils)

A Novel In Three Parts

By Fyodor Dostoevsky

Translated From The Russian By Constance Garnett

CONTENTS:

* PART I
* CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
* CHAPTER II. PRINCE HARRY. MATCHMAKING.
* CHAPTER III. THE SINS OF OTHERS
* CHAPTER IV. THE CRIPPLE
* CHAPTER V. THE SUBTLE SERPENT

* PART II
* CHAPTER I. NIGHT
* CHAPTER II. NIGHT (continued)
* CHAPTER III. THE DUEL
* CHAPTER IV. ALL IN EXPECTATION
* CHAPTER V. ON THE EVE OF THE FETE
* CHAPTER VI. PYOTR STEPANOVITCH IS BUSY
* CHAPTER VII. A MEETING
* CHAPTER VIII. IVAN THE TSAREVITCH
* CHAPTER IX. A RAID AT STEFAN TROFIMOVITCH'S
* CHAPTER X. FILIBUSTERS. A FATAL MORNING

* PART III
* CHAPTER I. THE FETE--FIRST PART
* CHAPTER II. THE END OF THE FETE
* CHAPTER III. A ROMANCE ENDED
* CHAPTER IV. THE LAST RESOLUTION
* CHAPTER V. A WANDERER
* CHAPTER VI. A BUSY NIGHT
* CHAPTER VII. STEPAN TROFIMOVITCH'S LAST WANDERING
* CHAPTER VIII. CONCLUSION

1916

"Strike me dead, the track has vanished,
Well, what now? We've lost the way,
Demons have bewitched our horses,
Led us in the wilds astray.

"What a number! Whither drift they?
What's the mournful dirge they sing?
Do they hail a witch's marriage
Or a goblin's burying?"

A. Pushkin.

"And there was one herd of many swine feeding on this
mountain; and they besought him that he would suffer them to
enter into them. And he suffered them.

"Then went the devils out of the man and entered into the
swine; and the herd ran violently down a steep place into
the lake and were choked.

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