| Most of our store AudioBooks and DVD are in Russian language. | | Russian AudioBooks > Classics > |  | | |  | The Devils (The Possessed) | | Author: | Dostoevsky Fyodor
| | Narrator: | U.Zaborovsky | | Format: | MP3 (128 kbps; 44100 Hz; Single Channel) | | CD(s): | 3 | | Play Time: | 35 h 5 min | | Item #: | RAB1600-1 | | Price (by mail): | $23.39 | | Download рrice: | $21.19 |
| | | Download sample file | The Devils also translated as Demons or The Possessed, is a 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Possessed is an earlier translation, made famous by Constance Garnett's version, but is somewhat inaccurate; the original Russian title refers to the demoniac possessors rather than the possessed.
An extremely political book, it is a testimony of the life of Imperial Russia in the late 19th century.
As the revolutionary democrats begin to arise in Russia, different ideals begin to collide, all of them exposed in this book, where the author shows his disgust for the left-wing idealists.
The book has four main characters: Verkhovensky, Shatov, Stavrogin and Tikhon. Through their ideas, Dostoyevsky describes the political chaos arising in Russia.
The Devils is a combination of two separate novels that Dostoevsky was working on. One was a commentary on the real-life murder in 1869 by a revolutionary group ("People's Vengeance") of one of its own members (Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov). The character Verkhovensky is based upon the leader of this revolutionary group, Sergey Nechayev, who was found guilty for this murder. The other novel which was eventually melded into The Devils was originally a religious work. The amoralist character Stavrogin was to be the hero of this novel, and is now commonly viewed as the most important character in The Devils.
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