Product Description:
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Paper quality= 70 gsm offwhite (Excellent)
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Cover quality= 260 gsm card
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Digitally printed, with excellent print and paper quality
Book Synopsis:
Dostoevsky's Chilling and Prophetic Novel of Revolutionary Fanaticism
"Dostoevsky's most confused and violent novel, and his most satisfactorily 'tragic' work." - Joyce Carol Oates
"Dostoevsky's greatest onslaught on Nihilism" and "one of humanity's most impressive achievements—perhaps even its supreme achievement—in the art of prose fiction." - Ronald Hingley
'If you want to conquer the world, conquer yourself' "."
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Possessed
A social and political satire, a psychological drama, and a large-scale tragedy, The Possessed or the Devils was first published in 1871- 72 by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Our edition features the 1916 English translation by Constance Garnett.
Inspired by the true story of a political murder that hurried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of The Possessed or the Devils 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.
