# Demons

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- Book: [Demons](https://www.bookquiver.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/demons) ([Demons.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/demons.md))
- Authors: [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://www.bookquiver.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky)
- Publisher: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-5715-182-4
- Pages: 784
- Published: 2000-08-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

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 and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia–a novel that is rivaled only by The Brothers Karamazov as Dostoevsky’s greatest. The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky continue their acclaimed series of Dostoevsky translations with this novel, also known as The Possessed .