Devils
includes the chapter "Stavrogin's confession," initially censored by Dostoevsky's publisher.
800 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1872
This edition
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800 pages, Paperback
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January 1, 1999 by Oxford University Press
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9780192838292
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0192838296
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English
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Stepan Trofimovitch Verhovensky
Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky is the philosopher and intellectual (though far more so in the image he has created for himself in the novels provincial backwater than in reality) who is partly to blame for the revolutionary ideas that fuel the dest...
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Nikolai Vsevolodovich Stavrogin
Nikolai Vsevolodovich Stavrogin is the central character of the novel but a highly ambiguous figure and often an observer or secondary participant in the novels key events compared to the younger Verkhovensky, who drives much of the action and repea...
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Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky
Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky is the son of Stepan and the driver of the mayhem that ultimately engulfs the town. He is the effectively abandoned son of Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky and a representation of the deterioration from idealistic reformer of...
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Lizaveta Nikolaevna
Lizaveta Nikolaevna is a vivacious local beauty who becomes engaged to Mavriky Nikolaevitch, but is fatally attracted to Stavrogin....
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Alexei Nilych Kirilov
lexei Nilych Kirillov is an engineer. He is a thorough nihilist, and has decided his own will is the ultimate reality. He means to commit suicide, and Pyotr Stepanovich means to use his suicide to further his revolutionary purposes. He is a "thoroughgoing...
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Shigalyov
Shigalyov is a social theorist and member of Pyotr Stepanovichs revolutionary "group of five." He has complicated plans for the future of society that the rest of the small radical cell arent much interested in, but in a grim foreshadowing of ...
About the author
Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
Many literary critics rate him of the greatest of world literature and consider multiple highly influential masterpieces. They consider his Notes from Underground of the first existentialist literature. He also well acts as a philosopher and theologian.
(Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский) (see also Fiodor Dostoïevski)
