Demons

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Published by: Penguin Classics, 2008

Description: Verkhovensky and Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the government, destroy society and seize power for themselves. But when it seems their motley group is about to be discovered, will their recruits be willing to kill on of their own circle in order to cover their tracks? Partly based on the real-life case of a student murdered by is fellow revolutionaries, Dostoyevsky's expansive novel is a powerful and prophetic, yet also lively and often comic depiction of nineteenth-century Russia, and a savage indictment of the madness and self-destruction of those who use violence to serve their beliefs.