About the Book: Demons
This title comes 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 countrys 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.
About the Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
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