num_pages: 733
description: 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.(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
language: English
title: Demons
titlecomplete: Demons
characters: Nikolai Vsevolodovich Stavrogin, Varvara Stavrogina, Shigalyov, Lizaveta Nikolaevna, Alexei Nilych Kirilov, Captain Lebyadkin, Stepan Trofimovitch Verhovensky, Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky, Liputin, Ivan Shatov
genres: Russia, Politics, Philosophy, Novels, Literature, Classic Literature, Russian Literature, Classics, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 49554
places: Russia
publisher: Everyman's Library