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      ISBN: B005F4D38M

      The Possessed (or The Devils, or The Demons)

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      Book Overview

      The Possessed, also translated as The Devils or The Demons. 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. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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      Rated 5 stars
      A masterpiece of characterization

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      I was intrigued when John Updike picked this over Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov as one of the ten greatest works of literature of the millenium. After reading it I still claim that Karamazov is better, but this novel is certainly not to be missed. It is touter than some of Dostoevsky's other works, and it contains some of his best characterizations, all suffused with a very dark and very penetrating sense of humor...

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      Rated 4 stars
      A great soap opera.

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      The book is long and melodrmatic. Deeper than that, the nihlistic movments in Russia is intresting to see devolop.

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      The Possessed (or The Devils, or The Demons) in A Life in Books: 9 of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Defining Works
      A Life in Books: 9 of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Defining Works
      Published by Ashly Moore Sheldon • January 15, 2021

      Fyodor Dostoyevsky's successful first book, Poor Folk, came out 175 years ago today when the author was only 24 years old. But in a life beset by drama worthy of, say, a Russian novel, it would be many years before he produced a notable follow-up. Here we explore the literary giant’s best books and how they mirror his extraordinary life.

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