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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Demons: A Novel in Three Parts (Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky)
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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ISBN-13: | 9780307434869 |
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Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 05/19/2010 |
Series: | Vintage Classics |
Sold by: | Random House |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 768 |
Sales rank: | 29,092 |
File size: | 3 MB |
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