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Devils (Oxford World's Classics) Book
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Devils : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199540495 : 0199540497 : 10 Sep 2008 : Devils, also known in English as The Possessed and The Demons, was first published in 1871-2. The third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, it is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray which follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town. Dostoevsky compares infectious radicalism to the devils that drove the Gadarene swine over the precipice in his vision of a society possessed by demonic creatures that produce devastating delusions of rationality. Dostoevsky is at his most imaginatively humorous in Devils: the novel is full of buffoonery and grotesque comedy. The plot is loosely based on the details of a notorious case of political murder, but Dostoevsky weaves suicide, rape, and a multiplicity of scandals into a compelling story of political evil. This new translation also includes the chapter `Stavrogin's Confession', which was initially considered to be too shocking to print. In this edition it appears where the author originally intended it.
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Blackwell
The third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, Devils (1871-2), also known as The Possessed, is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray that follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a...
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Pickabook
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Michael R. Katz (Editor)
- 0199540497
- 9780199540495
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 8 May 2008
- Oxford Paperbacks
- Paperback (Book)
- 800
- New Ed
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