The Devils and The Idiot: Including a story White Nights (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789355229762)

Fyodor Dostoevsky two most notable works in one volume Including a story White Nights.

The Devils also called Demons or The Possessed is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, It is considered one of the four masterworks written by Dostoevsky after his return from Siberian exile. Devils is a social and political satire, a psychological drama, and large-scale tragedy.

Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a 'novel-pamphlet' in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.

The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, In The Idiot, the saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power, and sexual conquest. He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorious kept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya.

The novel examines the consequences of placing such a singular individual at the centre of the conflicts, desires, passions, and egoism of worldly society, both for the man himself and for those with whom he becomes involved.