Demons Contributor(s): Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Author), Pevear, Richard (Translator), Volokhonsky, Larissa (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0679734511 ISBN-13: 9780679734512 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1995 Annotation: 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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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 93033367 |
Series: Vintage Classics |
Physical Information: 1.58" H x 5.25" W x 8.01" (1.64 lbs) 768 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Russia |
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Publisher Description: 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. |