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.

Demons (Dostoevsky novel)||Demons by Fyodor-dostoevsk||Demons: A Novel in Three Parts (Vintage Classics)||The Possessed (or, The Devils), by Fyodor Dostoevsky||Demons (Penguin Classics): Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ronald||Demons (Penguin Classics): Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ronald

Book details

• Format Hardcover
• Pages784 pages
• LanguageEnglish
• ISBN101857151828
• ISBN139781857151824