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An edition of Бѣсы (1871)

Demons

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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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Knopf
Language
English
Pages
733

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Subjects

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

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Russia

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19th century

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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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The Possessed
2005 May, Createspace
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Les possédés
2005-10-08, Project Gutenberg
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Devils
2005, Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
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The Possessed: or, The Devils
2005 May, Project Gutenberg
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The Possessed: The Devils
2004 June 30, Kessinger Publishing
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Demons
2000, Knopf
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Běsi
2000, Academia
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附魔者
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxii-xxxiii, [715]-733).
First included in Everyman's Library as The Possessed, 1931.

Published in
New York, USA
Series
Everyman's Library 182
Genre
Fiction.
Other Titles
Devils, The Possessed
Translation Of
Бесы

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891.73/3
Library of Congress
PG3326 .B6 2000, PG3326.B6 2000
lccn_permalink
https://lccn.loc.gov/2001269805

Contributors

Translator
Richard Pevear
Translator
Larissa Volokhonsky
Introduction
Joseph Frank

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xliii, 733 p. ;
Number of pages
733

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3964990M
Internet Archive
demons00dost
ISBN 10
0375411224
ISBN 13
9780375411229
LCCN
2001269805
OCLC/WorldCat
45258629, 1000111167
Alibris ID
0375411224
Google
SKJzPwAACAAJ
amazon.ca_asin
0375411224
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0375411224
Library Thing
7576788
Goodreads
12853

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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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