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(0)Avrahm Yarmolinsky
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Publisher
The Heritage Press
Pub. Date
[1943]
Language
English
Description
Lyric poem about a Russian aristocrat who feels empty despite the beauty that surrounds him. Eugene moves to the country and meets Tatyana, an eccentric maiden who falls in love with him. He rejects her and lives to regret it, inciting a fatal duel with his best friend.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Based on a true event, in which a young revolutionary was murdered by his comrades, The Possessed provoked a storm of controversy for its harsh depiction of a ruthless band of Russian intellectuals, atheists, socialists, anarchists, and other radicals who attempt to incite the population of a small provincial town to revolt against the government. In contrast to Dostoevsky's savage portrait of these radicals and the violent ideas that have possessed...
