Book Description Publication Date: February 28, 1954 The third of Dostoevsky"s five major novels, Devils (1871-2), also known as The Possessed, is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray that follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town. This new translation includes the chapter "Stavrogin"s confession," initially censored by Dostoevsky"s publisher.