num_pages: 733
description: Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0099140012 (ISBN13: 9780099140016)From the award-winning translators of Crime and Punishment, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, Dostoevsky intended his novel to castigate the fanaticism of his country's new revolutionaries, particularly those known as Nihilists. Blackly funny, grotesque and shocking, it is a disturbing portrait of five young men saturated in ideology and bent on destruction, and a compelling study of terrorism
language: English
title: Demons
titlecomplete: Demons
characters: Lizaveta Nikolaevna, Shigalyov, Ivan Shatov, Nikolai Vsevolodovich Stavrogin, Captain Lebyadkin, Varvara Stavrogina, Liputin, Alexei Nilych Kirilov, Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky, Stepan Trofimovitch Verhovensky
genres: Classics, Philosophy, Russia, Novels, Russian Literature, Classic Literature, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction, Politics
ratings_count: 49557
places: Russia
publisher: Vintage