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The Possessed

Written by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
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Also known as Demons, The Possessed is a powerful socio-political novel about revolutionary ideas and the radicals behind them. It follows the career of Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky, a political terrorist who leads a group of nihilists on a demonic quest for societal breakdown. They are consumed by their desires and ideals, and have surrendered themselves fully to the darkness of their "demons". This possession leads them to engulf a quiet provincial town and subject it to a storm of violence. Inspired by a real political killing in 1869, the book is an impassioned response to the ideologies of European liberalism and nihilism, which threatened Russian Orthodoxy; it eerily predicted the Russian Revolution, which would take place 50 years later. Funny, shocking, and tragic, it is a profound and affecting work with deep philosophical discourses about God, human freedom and political revolution.

Translation by Constance Garnett; appendix translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Virginia Woolf.

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Public Domain (P)2017 Naxos AudioBooks
Biographical Fiction Metaphysical & Visionary
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very interesting story, ear piercing narration

now posessed is a fantastic story , that everyone should read and study. Narration is also really good, though once again recording is very poor. and sibilance is very high. i tried different headphones , speakers and equalizer apo, but nothing much can be done about low bitrate and bad recording. sad, have to return it

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