Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels: Demons (Paperback)

from charlie68

: Another really good book by what is becoming my favourite author behind Charles Dickens. The way he presents philosophic ideas and then takes them to their disastrous conclusions makes for very powerful reading. The one thing disappointing about this novel is the removal of Stavorgin's Confessi...

from proustitute

This is one of the few novels by Dostoyevsky that I haven't read, and I think it's not only his most political but also his most prescient in terms of today's world-particularly the individual faced with corrupt systems, the movement toward anarchy and rebellion, and the webs of power that bind a...

from jonfaith

I finished this at a doctor's office, not my doctor's, but my wife's. She had the flu. When my wife was in the hospital a few years before that and on the door his name was posted adjacent to her's: Faith - Grief. There's a great deal of both in this amazing novel. I should ask Dr. Grief if he li...

from proustitute

This is one of the few novels by Dostoyevsky that I haven't read, and I think it's not only his most political but also his most prescient in terms of today's world—particularly the individual faced with corrupt systems, the movement toward anarchy and rebellion, and the webs of power that bind a...

from bdtrump

Probably my favorite work by Dostoyevsky, Demons discusses the implications of nihilism and the drive for destructive revolution. Built within are allegories to traditional Russian views of evil and devils, which can easily make the reader wonder if the antagonists are really just evil nihilist r...