Demons

Demons
ISBN-10
1857151828
ISBN-13
9781857151824
Series
Demons
Category
Nihilism
Pages
733
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Everyman Publishers
Author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Description

Social comedy and political satire. Set in mid-nineteenth provincial Russia, it examines the effect of a charismatic but unscrupulous self-styled revolutionary leader, Pyotr Verkhovensky, on a group of credulous followers.

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