An edition of Бѣсы (1871)

Demons

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An edition of Бѣсы (1871)

Demons

First Vintage Classics Edition
  • 3.00 ·
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Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried 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.

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Vintage Classics
Language
English

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The Possessed
2014 April 26, LibriVox
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Cover of: Los demonios
Los demonios
2011, Alianza Editorial
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Demons: A Novel In Three Parts
2008, Penguin Books
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Cover of: The Possessed
The Possessed
2005 May, Createspace
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Cover of: Devils
Devils
2005, Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
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Cover of: Les possédés
Les possédés
2005-10-08, Project Gutenberg
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Cover of: The Possessed
The Possessed: The Devils
2004 June 30, Kessinger Publishing
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Cover of: Běsi
Běsi
2000, Academia
Hardcover in Czech
Cover of: Demons
Demons
1995 August, Vintage Classics
Epub in English - First Vintage Classics Edition
Cover of: 附魔者
附魔者
1979, Yuan jing chu ban shi ye gong si
in Chinese - Chu ban
Cover of: Die Dämonen
Die Dämonen
1921, Piper
in German

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York, USA
Other Titles
Devils, The Possessed
Copyright Date
1994

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891.73/3
Library of Congress
PG3326.B6 1994

Contributors

Translator
Richard Pevear
Translator
Larissa Volokhonsky

The Physical Object

Format
Epub

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26442821M
ISBN 10
0307434869
ISBN 13
9780307434869
LCCN
93033367
OCLC/WorldCat
757722676
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B003E8AIXE
OverDrive
468813
Goodreads
39892503

First Sentence

"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."

Work Description

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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