Demons Introduction by Joseph Frank

<b>Presented here in stunning hardcover, <i>Demons </i>examines the effect of a charismatic but unscrupulous self-styled revolutionary leader on a group of credulous followers.</b><br><br>Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of <i>Demons</i> as a “novel-pamphlet” in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia—a novel that is rivaled only by <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> as Dostoevsky’s greatest.<br><br>The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky continue their acclaimed series of Dostoevsky translations with this novel, which is also known as <i>The Possessed</i>.<br><br>With an introduction by Joseph Frank. <br><br>Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman’s Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.