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London: William Heinemann, 1913. [Russian Literature] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 637 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a blind device to upper. Small blue bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. A black ink ownership, and a blue ink Convent school inscription to flyleaf. Spotting and toning to edges and endpapers. Occasional light thumbing and creasing. Light rubbing to cloth with some white splashes to boards. Spine toned and gilt dulled, with a small white 'VI' to base denoting the Convent form number. Very good. The third volume of Dostoevsky's works translated by Garnett between 1912 and 1920, and notably not one of the titles translated into English by Frederick Whishaw in the 1880s.

Demons, also known as The Devils or The Possessed, is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky first published in the journal The Russian Messenger in serial form in 1871-1872. It is considered one of Dostoevsky's masterpieces and a profound and prophetic examination of the moral anarchy that results when a society's intelligentsia abandons its belief in God.