Editions

Demons

  • Imprint: Vintage Digital

  • ISBN: 9781446485316

  • Length: 768  Pages

  • RRP: £9.99

Demons

  • A Novel in Three Parts

From the award-winning translators of Crime and Punishment, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, Dostoevsky intended his novel to castigate the fanaticism of his country's new revolutionaries, particularly those known as Nihilists. Blackly funny, grotesque and shocking, it is a disturbing portrait of five young men saturated in ideology and bent on destruction, and a compelling study of terrorism

  • Imprint: Vintage Digital

  • ISBN: 9781446485316

  • Length: 768  Pages

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • "Volokhonsky's and Pevear's translation brings to the surface all of Dostoevsky's subtle linguistic and nationalist humour, and the copious notes are indispensable for making one's way through the thicket of 19th-century Russian politics"

    Kirkus Reviews

  • "An outstanding achievement"

    John Bayley

  • "As close to Dostoevsky's Russian as is possible in English"

    Chicago Tribune

  • "Required reading for anyone who wants to understand the mind of the terrorist"

    Sunday Times

  • "Marvellous...fluid and well-paced translation"

    Observer

More from this Author

View all View all
View all View all

About the Author

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk(1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came The House of the Dead (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Vremya (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed Notes from Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The major novels of his late period are The Idiot (1868), Demons(1871-2) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). He died in 1881.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Related articles

/content/dam/prh/articles/adults/2018/september/Penguin_UGCReadingList_ArticleCard.png

Recommendations

100 must-read classic books, as chosen by our readers
/content/dam/prh/articles/archive/Vintage-Classics-Russians-spines-close-up.jpg

Recommendations

Reading the revolution: 6 Russian Classics

30 January 2017

We use cookies on this site and by continuing to browse it you agree to us sending you cookies.

For more on our cookies and changing your settings click here.