Demons
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
1,039 pages~17 hrs
“Ideas can be the most dangerous demons of all.”
When a group of radical nihilists descends upon a provincial Russian town, their thirst for chaos ignites a firestorm of conspiracy and psychological manipulation. Dostoevsky crafts a terrifyingly prophetic exploration of how dangerous ideologies can possess the human soul and dismantle a society from within.
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