Demons
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
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Set in mid 19th-century Russia, Demons examines the effect of a charismatic but unscrupulous self-styled revolutionary leader on a group of credulous followers.
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–a novel that is rivaled only by The Brothers Karamazov as Dostoevsky’s greatest.
The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky continue their acclaimed series of Dostoevsky translations with this novel, also known as The Possessed.
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Fiction, Russian fiction, Politics in fiction, Nihilism, Social life and customs, Terrorists, Manners and customs, Romans, Fiction, political, Terrorists, fiction, Russia (federation), fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Slavic philology, Terrorism, Nihilismo, Terrorismo, Novela, Vido social y costumbres, Fiction, general, Nihilism--fiction, Terrorists--russia--fiction, Pg3325 .b6 2008, 891.733, Political science, Fiction, psychological, Drama, history and criticism, Long Now Manual for CivilizationPlaces
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2011 July, Newton Compton
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Demons: A Novel In Three Parts
2008, Penguin Books
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The Possessed: The Devils
2004 June 30, Kessinger Publishing
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2004 January 15, Barnes & Noble Classics
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Os Demônios
2004, editora 34, Editora 34, ZCUOO
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Demons (Everyman's Library Classics)
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2000, Wordsworth Classics, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Les démons
January 1, 1999, Actes Sud, ACTES SUD
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1995-08, Vintage Classics
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Demons
1994 September 15, Vintage Classics
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Book Details
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxii-xxxiii, [715]-733).
First included in Everyman's Library as The Possessed, 1931.
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"BEFORE DESCRIBING THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS WHICH took place so recently in our town, hitherto not remarkable for anything in particular, I find it necessary, since I am not a skilled writer, to go back a little and begin with certain biographical details concerning our talented and greatly esteemed Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky."
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Also known as Demons or The Devils, this is Dostoyevsky’s most political novel. Though critical of the left-wing revolutionaries, split as they often were into disparate factions and cells the author also tacitly rebukes the conservative elite for failing to come to terms with the high levels of disaffection in the country, a stance that would ultimately lead to their downfall.
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