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The Devils: The Possessed (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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'Devils' ('Besy'), also known in English as 'The Possessed' and 'The Demons' is the third of Dostoevsky's five major novels. It is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray which follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town. Dostoevsky compares the radicals to the devils that drove the Gadarene swine over the precipice in his vision of a society possessed by demonic creatures that produce devastating delusions of
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- Author
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Published
- 1972
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140440355
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Political
- Rating
- 4.26 / 5 (478 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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