Devils / Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; with an introduction and notes by Elizabeth Dalton ; translated by Constance Garnett.
"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."-- from publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781840221282
- ISBN: 1840221283
- Physical Description: xxii, 696 pages ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: Chatham, Kent : Wordsworth Editions Limited, 2005.
- Copyright: ©2005.
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General Note: | Alternate title: The Possessed. Alternate title: Demons |
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245 | 1 | 0. | ‡aDevils / ‡cFyodor Dostoyevsky ; with an introduction and notes by Elizabeth Dalton ; translated by Constance Garnett. |
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520 | . | ‡a"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."-- ‡cfrom publisher. | |
700 | 1 | . | ‡aBriggs, A. D. P. ‡q(Tony. D. P.), ‡eauthor of introduction. |
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