Vera

Oscar Wilde's Vera; or, The Nihilists plunges into late imperial Russia, where censorship, oppression, and revolutionary terror turn private grief into public violence. In a remote inn, Vera Sabouroff's compassion for a chain of prisoners shatters when she discovers that one of them is her missing brother Dmitri, imprisoned for Nihilist beliefs. His revelation, and the oath he leaves behind, drive Vera from sorrow into a fierce hunger for vengeance and sacrifice. That resolve carries into the conspirators' underground world, where Prince Paul, a cynical ex-minister, wins trust by offering money, palace access, and ruthless practicality. As the plot to assassinate the Czar is set by lot, Vera pleads for mercy when she learns the target is the man she loves, but brutal revolutionary logic and her own suffering force her to choose between personal feeling and political duty. By the end, she embraces the dagger, the mission, and the language of martyrdom, binding loyalty, betrayal, fanaticism, and idealism into a tense political drama of sacrifice and revenge. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.