Demons

novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
VisualArtwork literary_work Q329989
Demons
Типография К. Замысловского (1873) · Public Domain · Wikimedia

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Instance of
literary work
Inception
1870[10]
Language of work or name
Russian[8]
Publication date
1871, 1872[11][12]
Followed by
Bobok[6]
Country of origin
Russian Empire[9]
Different from
Possessed[22]
First line
Приступая к описанию недавних и столь странных событий, происшедших в нашем, доселе ничем не отличавшемся городе, я принужден, по неумению моему, начать несколько издалека, а именно некоторыми биографическими подробностями о талантливом и многочтимом Степане Трофимовиче Верховенском.[23]
Form of creative work
novel[36]
Named after
bies[4]
Narrative location
Russia, Russian Empire[19][20]
Number of parts of this work
+3, +23[27][28]
P14541
42Z78a[37]
Place of publication
Russian Empire[7]
Title
Бѣсы[21]
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🏷️ Also known as
en Demons (Dostoevsky novel) en Demons en The Possessed ar شياطين (رواية) ar رواية الشياطين cs Běsi da Onde ånder da Nihilisterne da De besatte de Die Dämonen de Böse Geister el Οι δαιμονισμένοι es Los endemoniados es Los demonios fa جن‌زدگان fa جن زدگان fa شیاطین fi Riivaajat fr Les Démons fr Les Possedes
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179962552
Library of Congress authority ID
n2002043924
GND ID
4135522-2
Allcinema film ID
763
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11943406k
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
519848
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/The-Possessed-novel-by-Dostoyevsky
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
les-demons
FantLab work ID
281116
Freebase ID
/m/03cqcj
Goodreads work ID
1487216
IDU literary work ID
42
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IMDb ID
tt0066703
IdRef ID
027379671
Kallías ID
AK00322497
LibraryThing work ID
7576788
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007592412405171
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX1953426
Open Library ID
OL166971W
Penguin Random House work ID
303406
Project Gutenberg ebook ID
8117
Topic's main category
Category:Demons (Dostoyevsky)
Work available at URL
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