{"product_id":"9780199540495","title":"Devils","description":"Devils, also known in English as The Possessed and The Demons, was first published in 1871-2. 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 infectious radicalism 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 rationality.\r\n \r\n Dostoevsky is at his most imaginatively humorous in Devils: the novel is full of buffoonery and grotesque comedy. The plot is loosely based on the details of a notorious case of political murder, but Dostoevsky weaves suicide, rape, and a multiplicity of scandals into a compelling story of political evil.\r\n \r\n This new translation also includes the chapter `Stavrogin's Confession', which was initially considered to be too shocking to print. In this edition it appears where the author originally intended it.","brand":"Fyodor Dostoevsky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (UK)","offer_id":42286950285534,"sku":"9780199540495","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0425\/4567\/6440\/files\/BNCImageAPI_970a7330-376a-40ac-960e-566f11cca5c3.jpg?v=1734985101","url":"https:\/\/paragraphbooks.com\/products\/9780199540495","provider":"Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}