Devils (Dostoevsky - Wordsworth ed.)

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

ISBN:  9781840220995

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe as the subject and culmination of Devils, a title that refers the young radicals themselves and also to the materialistic ideas that possessed the minds of many thinking people Russian society at the time.