| #421781 in Books | 2000-10-24 | 2000-10-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x1.60 x5.30l, | File type: PDF | 776 pages||13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| it is spelled out by his portrayal of different characters and made convincing by how the reader identifies with and understands|By Ian Simpson|A very thought provoking portrait of combating and extreme personalities. As in all Dostoevsky's works, there is a very clear message; it is spelled out by his portrayal of different characters and made convincing by how the reader id|From Library Journal|Pevear and Volokhonsky have found critical acclaim with previous translations of Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov (Classic Returns, LJ 8/90), Crime and Punishment (Classic Returns, LJ 1/92), and Notes from Underground (Classic Returns, LJ 7/9
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 an...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Demons (Everyman's Library, 182) | Fyodor Dostoevsky. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
