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The Possessed

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  1. Pt. 1, Ch. 01: Introductory (Sec. 1-2)

    19:51

  2. Pt. 1, Ch. 01: Introductory (Sec. 3-5)

    21:43

  3. Pt. 1, Ch. 01: Introductory (Sec. 6-7)

    16:23

  4. Pt. 1, Ch. 01: Introductory (Sec. 8)

    13:47

  5. Pt. 1, Ch. 01: Introductory (Sec. 9)

    14:23

  6. Pt. 1, Ch. 02: Prince Harry; Matchmaking (Sec. 1)

    13:30

  7. Pt. 1, Ch. 02: Prince Harry; Matchmaking (Sec. 2)

    11:05

  8. Pt. 1, Ch. 02: Prince Harry; Matchmaking (Sec. 3)

    11:07

  9. Pt. 1, Ch. 02: Prince Harry; Matchmaking (Sec. 4)

    20:12

  10. Pt. 1, Ch. 02: Prince Harry; Matchmaking (Sec. 5-6)

    19:10

  11. Pt. 1, Ch. 02: Prince Harry; Matchmaking (Sec. 7-8)

    22:48

  12. Pt. 1, Ch. 03: The Sins of Others (Sec. 1-2)

    18:28

  13. Pt. 1, Ch. 03: The Sins of Others (Sec. 3-4)

    18:15

  14. Pt. 1, Ch. 03: The Sins of Others (Sec. 5-6)

    21:21

  15. Pt. 1, Ch. 03: The Sins of Others (Sec. 7)

    14:39

  16. Pt. 1, Ch. 03: The Sins of Others (Sec. 8)

    11:58

  17. Pt. 1, Ch. 03: The Sins of Others (Sec. 9-10)

    17:03

  18. Pt. 1, Ch. 04: The Cripple (Sec. 1-2)

    18:53

  19. Pt. 1, Ch. 04: The Cripple (Sec. 3-4)

    16:30

  20. Pt. 1, Ch. 04: The Cripple (Sec. 5-6)

    20:53

  21. Pt. 1, Ch. 04: The Cripple (Sec. 7)

    20:02

  22. Pt. 1, Ch. 05: The Subtle Serpent (Sec. 1-3)

    26:25

  23. Pt. 1, Ch. 05: The Subtle Serpent (Sec. 4)

    20:08

  24. Pt. 1, Ch. 05: The Subtle Serpent (Sec. 5)

    12:29

  25. Pt. 1, Ch. 05: The Subtle Serpent (Sec. 6)

    25:00

  26. Pt. 1, Ch. 05: The Subtle Serpent (Sec. 7)

    19:49

  27. Pt. 1, Ch. 05: The Subtle Serpent (Sec. 8)

    9:06

  28. Pt. 2, Ch. 01: Night (Sec. 1-2)

    20:48

  29. Pt. 2, Ch. 01: Night (Sec. 3)

    26:41

  30. Pt. 2, Ch. 01: Night (Sec. 4-5)

    23:17

  31. Pt. 2, Ch. 01: Night (Sec. 6)

    17:05

  32. Pt. 2, Ch. 01: Night (Sec. 7)

    22:39

  33. Pt. 2, Ch. 02: Night (cont.) (Sec. 1)

    8:08

  34. Pt. 2, Ch. 02: Night (cont.) (Sec. 2)

    24:18

  35. Pt. 2, Ch. 02: Night (cont.) (Sec. 3)

    15:57

  36. Pt. 2, Ch. 02: Night (cont.) (Sec. 4)

    6:46

  37. Pt. 2, Ch. 03: The Duel (Sec. 1-4)

    27:01

  38. Pt. 2, Ch. 04: All In Expectation (Sec. 1)

    20:33

  39. Pt. 2, Ch. 04: All In Expectation (Sec. 2)

    10:56

  40. Pt. 2, Ch. 04: All In Expectation (Sec. 3)

    24:10

  41. Pt. 2, Ch. 05: On the Eve of the Fête (Sec. 1)

    18:33

  42. Pt. 2, Ch. 05: On the Eve of the Fête (Sec. 2)

    24:18

  43. Pt. 2, Ch. 05: On the Eve of the Fête (Sec. 3)

    17:48

  44. Pt. 2, Ch. 06: Pyotr Stepanovich Is Busy (Sec. 1-2)

    16:37

  45. Pt. 2, Ch. 06: Pyotr Stepanovich Is Busy (Sec. 3)

    25:11

  46. Pt. 2, Ch. 06: Pyotr Stepanovich Is Busy (Sec. 4-5)

    25:45

  47. Pt. 2, Ch. 06: Pyotr Stepanovich Is Busy (Sec. 6)

    15:24

  48. Pt. 2, Ch. 06: Pyotr Stepanovich Is Busy (Sec. 7)

    15:30

  49. Pt. 2, Ch. 07: A Meeting (Sec. 1)

    15:07

  50. Pt. 2, Ch. 07: A Meeting (Sec. 2a)

    19:19

  51. Pt. 2, Ch. 07: A Meeting (Sec. 2b)

    21:24

  52. Pt. 2, Ch. 08: Ivan the Tsarevitch

    24:29

  53. Pt. 2, Ch. 09: A Raid At Stefan Trofimovitch's

    22:10

  54. Pt. 2, Ch. 10: Filibusters; A Fatal Morning (Sec. 1a)

    14:59

  55. Pt. 2, Ch. 10: Filibusters; A Fatal Morning (Sec. 1b)

    15:41

  56. Pt. 2, Ch. 10: Filibusters; A Fatal Morning (Sec. 2-3)

    27:30

  57. Pt. 3, Ch. 01: The Fête—First Part (Sec. 1-2a)

    20:33

  58. Pt. 3, Ch. 01: The Fête—First Part (Sec. 2b)

    18:11

  59. Pt. 3, Ch. 01: The Fête—First Part (Sec. 3)

    16:08

  60. Pt. 3, Ch. 01: The Fête—First Part (Sec. 4)

    17:19

  61. Pt. 3, Ch. 02: The End of the Fête (Sec. 1-2)

    28:42

  62. Pt. 3, Ch. 02: The End of the Fête (Sec. 3)

    26:59

  63. Pt. 3, Ch. 02: The End of the Fête (Sec. 4)

    13:48

  64. Pt. 3, Ch. 03: A Romance Ended (Sec. 1)

    14:12

  65. Pt. 3, Ch. 03: A Romance Ended (Sec. 2)

    18:43

  66. Pt. 3, Ch. 03: A Romance Ended (Sec. 3)

    16:03

  67. Pt. 3, Ch. 04: The Last Resolution (Sec. 1)

    24:02

  68. Pt. 3, Ch. 04: The Last Resolution (Sec. 2)

    10:56

  69. Pt. 3, Ch. 04: The Last Resolution (Sec. 3-4)

    19:09

  70. Pt. 3, Ch. 05: A Wanderer (Sec. 1)

    21:15

  71. Pt. 3, Ch. 05: A Wanderer (Sec. 2)

    14:19

  72. Pt. 3, Ch. 05: A Wanderer (Sec. 3)

    11:48

  73. Pt. 3, Ch. 05: A Wanderer (Sec. 4-6)

    21:33

  74. Pt. 3, Ch. 06: A Busy Night (Sec. 1)

    24:45

  75. Pt. 3, Ch. 06: A Busy Night (Sec. 2a)

    24:23

  76. Pt. 3, Ch. 06: A Busy Night (Sec. 2b-3)

    22:33

  77. Pt. 3, Ch. 07: Stepan Trofimovitch's Last Wandering (Sec. 1a)

    16:24

  78. Pt. 3, Ch. 07: Stepan Trofimovitch's Last Wandering (Sec. 1b)

    14:20

  79. Pt. 3, Ch. 07: Stepan Trofimovitch's Last Wandering (Sec. 2)

    27:28

  80. Pt. 3, Ch. 07: Stepan Trofimovitch's Last Wandering (Sec. 3)

    20:45

  81. Pt. 3, Ch. 08: Conclusion

    29:41

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In a provincial Russian town, a group of nihilists and radicals led by the charismatic, sinister Pyotr Verkhovensky and the enigmatic Nikolai Stavrogin spirals into conspiracy, manipulation, and murder, dragging the community toward chaos. Dostoevsky's darkly prophetic novel (also known as Demons) is a searing indictment of revolutionary fanaticism and the moral emptiness that can hide behind grand ideals. Savage, brilliant, and unsettlingly relevant, it foresaw the terrors that political extremism would unleash in the coming century. A complex and disturbing masterpiece, The Possessed probes the abyss of ideology and the human capacity for destruction with terrifying insight.

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SOME DETAILS OF THE BIOGRAPHY OF THAT HIGHLY RESPECTED GENTLEMAN STEPAN TROFIMOVITCH VERHOVENSKY.

IN UNDERTAKING to describe the recent and strange incidents in our town, till lately wrapped in uneventful obscurity, I find myself forced in absence of literary skill to begin my story rather far back, that is to say, with certain biographical details concerning that talented and highly-esteemed gentleman, Stepan Trofimovitch Verhovensky. I trust that these details may at least serve as an introduction, while my projected story itself will come later.

I will say at once that Stepan Trofimovitch had always filled a particular rôle among us, that of the progressive patriot, so to say, and he was passionately fond of playing the part—so much so that I really believe he could not have existed without it. Not that I would put him on a level with an actor at a theatre, God forbid, for I really have a respect for him. This may all have been the effect of habit, or rather, more exactly of a generous propensity he had from his earliest years for indulging in an agreeable day-dream in which he figured as a picturesque public character. He fondly loved, for instance, his position as a “persecuted” man and, so to speak, an “exile.” There is a sort of traditional glamour about those two little words that fascinated him once for all and, exalting him gradually in his own opinion, raised him in the course of years to a lofty pedestal very gratifying to vanity. In an English satire of the last century, Gulliver, returning from the land of the Lilliputians where the people were only three or four inches high, had grown so accustomed to consider himself a giant among them, that as he walked along the streets of London he could not help crying out to carriages and passers-by to be careful and get out of his way for fear he should crush them, imagining that they were little and he was still a giant. He was laughed at and abused for it, and rough coachmen even lashed at the giant with their whips. But was that just? What may not be done by habit? Habit had brought Stepan Trofimovitch almost to the same position, but in a more innocent and inoffensive form, if one may use such expressions, for he was a most excellent man.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian philosopher, novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian and world literature, and many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces.

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First published
1871
Reading time
About 18 hours
Pages
694
Language
English
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