Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Author
Series
Penguin classics ; L35
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[1953?]
Language
English
Description
Demons is a social and political satire, a psychological drama, and large-scale tragedy. Joyce Carol Oates has described it as "Dostoevsky's most confused and violent novel, and his most satisfactorily 'tragic' work." Demons is an allegory of the potentially catastrophic consequences of the political and moral nihilism that were becoming prevalent in Russia in the 1860s. A fictional town descends into chaos as it becomes the focal point of an attempted...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
"Summoned to the country estate of his wealthy uncle Colonel Yegor Rostanev, the young student Sergey Aleksandrovich finds himself thrown into a startling bedlam. For as he soon sees, his meek and kind-hearted uncle is wholly dominated by a pretentious and despotic pseudo-intellectual named Opiskin, a charlatan who has ingratiated himself with Yegor's mother and now holds the entire household under his thumb"--Amazon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hesperus
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Golyadkin is a rather middling man, a somewhat insignificant government official. Then one day he meets his 'double' - a man with the same name, face and background. Initially charmed by the coincidence, Golyadkin soon notices a discernible cooling in the reaction of his friends and colleagues towards him, whilst his double seems to grow in popularity. Unable to escape the relentless presence of 'Golyadkin junior', suddenly the most ordinary...
