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The Possessed
- Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
- Length: 27 hrs and 27 mins
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Summary
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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- Richard Lapper
- 18-08-23
simply superb
The reader makes this complex novel much easier to follow. You still might to listen with a copy at hand though.
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- Mrs. D. Davies
- 26-05-21
great reading
a great translation and narration . much preferred listening to it than reading it as it was easier to keep track of the characters
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- MMM
- 14-06-22
Disappointing
I was expecting a lot from this because it's allegedly a masterpiece of world literature.
Alas, I don't have the patience to listen to 11 and a half hours only for next to NOTHING to have happened.
I am nearly half way through and not once has this book gripped me or made me want to read on.
Crime and punishment was amazing and the Brothers Karamazov was good. Even Notes from Underground was decent. But I'm done with this one I'm afraid.
As ever the performance is superb
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