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A superb new translation of Dostoyevsky's chilling and prophetic novel of revolutionary fanaticism

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

As ideological ferment grips Russia, a small group of revolutionaries, led by Pyotr Verkhovensky and inspired by Nikolai Stavrogin, plan to spread destruction and anarchy throughout the country. Morally bankrupt, they are prepared to use whatever means necessary to achieve their... Read Full Overview

"'The fire is in the minds of men and not in the roofs of houses,' Dostoevsky writes at one point in DEMONS. The fact remains that for the great Russian novelist art was a theurgical function interdependent with the state of the soul."-George Panichas, THE BURDEN OF VISION Translated... Read Full Overview

A pair of self-styled revolutionaries and their followers plot to overthrow the Tsar and seize control of the government in Dostoyevsky's compelling tale of ideology and murder in 19th-century Russia. Based on a real-life political assassination, the story unfolds in a fictional... Read Full Overview

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"What I am writing now is a tendentious thing," Dostoyevsky wrote to a friend in connection with his first outline for The Devils . "I feel like saying everything as passionately as possible. (Let the nihilists and the Westerners scream that I am reactionary ) To hell with them... Read Full Overview

'The most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia' Guardian

Besy - odin iz spornykh romanov Dostoevskogo. Odni vidyat v nem prorocheskiy pamflet. Drugie - literaturnyy poligon dlya ispytaniya filosofskikh i sotsial'nykh idey. Tret'i - izoshchrennyy politicheskiy triller, ostroaktual'nyy dlya rossiyskoy zhizni konflikt mezhdu liberalami... Read Full Overview

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Possessed, novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, published in Russian in 1872 as Besy. The book, also known in English as The Devils... Read Full Overview

Demons, also known as The Possessed or The Devils, is a dark masterpiece that evokes a world where the lines between and good and evil long ago became blurred. Pyotr Verkhovensky and Nikolai Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow... Read Full Overview