Title:
Demons : a novel in three parts / by Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated and annotated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
ISBN:
9780679423140
9780679734512
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : A.A. Knopf, 1994.
Physical Description:
xxvii 733 pages ; 25 cm.
General Note:
Translation of Besy.
Contents:
pt. 1. Instead of an introduction -- Prince Harry. Matchmaking -- Someone else's sins -- The last girl -- The wise serpent -- pt. 2. Night -- The duel -- All in expectation -- Before the Fête -- Pyotr Stepanovich bustles about -- With our people -- Ivan the Tsarevich -- Stepan Trofimovich perquisitioned -- Filibusters. A fatal morning -- pt. 3. The Fête. First part -- The end of the Fête -- A finished romance -- A traveler -- A toilsome night -- The last peregrination.
Of Stepan Trofimovich -- Conclusion.
Summary:
A new translation of The Possessed and a new title to go with it. The translators claim it better reflects the spirit of what basically is a novel of ideas, the demons of the title being the Western imports of idealism, socialism, materialism, nihilism, atheism and so on.
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Language Note:
Translated from Russian.
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OCLC Number:
ocm28887913
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