{"product_id":"demons","title":"Demons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA masterful translation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s rollicking novel that examines the effect of a charismatic but unscrupulous self-styled revolutionary leader on a group of credulous followers—from “the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“[Pevear and Volokhonsky] capture the feverishly intense, personal explosions of activity and emotion that manifest themselves in Russian life.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eBook Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russia in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDemons\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as a \u003cem\u003e“novel-pamphlet”\u003c\/em\u003e in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What he emerged with in 1872 was at once his darkest novel until \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and his most ferociously funny. For alongside its relentlessly escalating plot of conspiracy and assassination, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDemons\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (which earlier translators erroneously titled \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Possessed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) is a blistering comedy of ideas run amok. And, like all of Dostoevsky’s novels, it is also a riot of literary voices, whose profusion, energy, and variety are rendered wonderfully in this English version.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Reads Books and Stationery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51160432836914,"sku":null,"price":210.0,"currency_code":"GHS","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/0746\/1170\/files\/DEMONS_FYODOR_DOSTOYEVSKY.jpg?v=1779294487","url":"https:\/\/cityreadsbookstore.com\/products\/demons","provider":"City Reads Books and Stationery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}