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	The Devils (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Devils, also translated as Demons or The Possessed, is a 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
		The Devils is a combination of two separate novels that Dostoevsky was working on.
		Nicolas Stavrogin is the main character of the novel, a complex figure, he has several inhuman traits about him that resemble a vampire in literature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Possessed (509 words)

	The War of the Worlds (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wells, is an early science fiction invasion novel (or novella) which describes the fictional turn of the nineteenth century invasion of Earth by aliens from Mars.
		The humans are soon powerless and cannot halt the invasion; however, the aliens are unexpectedly killed by terrestrial diseases, to which they have no immunity.
		The novel challenges this perspective by depicting the injustice of the Martian invasion, the comparative Martian technological superiority notwithstanding.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(novel) (1688 words)

	Papillon (autobiography) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It has been described as an autobiographical novel or a fictional novel by critics, but Charrière always maintained that the account was accurate and true.
		He requested that he be transferred to Devil's Island, the smallest and most "inescapable" island in the Iles de Salut group.
		Studying the waters around the island, Charrière discovered a rocky inlet surrounded by a high cliff that caused a phenomenon to occur in the water currents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Papillon_(novel) (1131 words)

	Dostoevsky Studies :: The Last Delusion in an Infinite Series of Delusions: Stavrogin and the Symbolic Structure of The ...
		In the "modern novel," i.e., the novel as we know it from the works of Stendhal, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, and Proust, the distance between the world of the subject and the world of the mediator has been reduced, with the effect that their spheres interpenetrate.
		This is the miracle she is waiting for to happen throughout the novel: the moment of identity between the outward, visual appearance of Stepan Trofimovich, dressed up to represent her ideal, and her idea of him as a poet.
		At the same time, however, The Devils is a work of art and not a textbook of psychology, and Girard's definition of Stavrogin as a "veritable allegory of internal mediation" somehow bypasses the aesthetic side of The Devils, the network of parallelisms, redoublings, and inversions generated by the principle of the Urbild-Abbild structure.
	www.utoronto.ca /tsq/DS/04/053.shtml (4769 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: White Devils
		On the surface, White Devils is a near-future thriller energized by the specter of a world both devastated by and dependent upon bio-tech.
		Indeed, racism and colonialism infuse the background of White Devils, coming to the fore in the form of characters like a snake-handling American con artist who hunts down suspected bio-terrorists in the name of God, and a corporate executive whose company is the de facto ruler of the Congo.
		In the end, even the seemingly straight-forward decision of whether to kill a white devil, the persistent symbol of horror and evil in the novel, turns out to be not simple or straight-forward at all.
	www.sfsite.com /06a/wd177.htm (649 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Devils (Oxford World's Classics): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		For Part One of the novel, everything that the narrator reveals could have been gleaned second-hand, as he was privy to all the conversations that related to the events recorded.
		This may indeed be the result of the fact that this novel was serialized, as was the case with most of Dicken's novels, for instance.
		Stavrogin is as great a creation as Raskolnikov, and although this novel doesn't enjoy the fame of "Crime and Punishment" or "The Idiot" (and is, it should be said, a "tougher" read) it is their equal in insight, achievement and value.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0192838296 (1311 words)

	White Devils by Paul McAuley - an infinity plus review
		McAuley's novel occurs in a future recovering warily from various plagues and environmental catastrophes.
		Unfortunately, although White Devils is indeed fascinating and intriguing, McAuley, somewhat clumsily and manipulatively, telegraphs several of the novel's supposed surprises while hiding revelations from readers even after the protagonists uncover them.
		Thus, the novel's ethical core is confused and muddled, much to its detriment.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /fantasticfiction/whitedevils.htm (400 words)

	Marcos Aguinis - Bibliography: Novels -> Cantata of the Devils
		The novel proceeds with knots and reposes, tremors, mysticism and humor, evolving from a kind of allegreto to an overwhelming climax.
		The novel gathers its materials in a climactic unit, were each of the movements show the meaning of a necessary part.
		This novel is an aesthetic journey and it is also a prayer for the dignity of the human being, fabulous creator of its own demons
	www.aguinis.net /eng/n_03.htm (231 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Sea Devils were the most decorated navy squadron in the Vietnam War, acing out the world-famous Topgun Tailhookers.
		His experiences at General Dynamics are the basis of this novel.
		Jack is a tough small-town hero who fights off the Mexican mafia and assassins to save his sister-inlaw and solve the murder of his brother for the californian police.
	www.sarcombat.com (276 words)

	Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
		Elizabeth Egloff, from the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
		Paralleling the action is the plight of Nicholas Stavrogin, a rapist, haunted by the ghost of his young victim.
		Loosely based on the novel by Dostoyevsky, and steeped in the historic events that shocked 1870's Russia, THE DEVILS is a story of love and betrayal in a society on the edge of revolution; a society full of idealists destroyed by a new definition of humanity.
	www.dramatists.com /cgi-bin/db/single.asp?index=0&key=2753 (232 words)

	Devils Island -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Flattened, and wider than they are long, devil rays have fleshy, enlarged pectoral fins that look like wings; extensions of these fins, looking like devils' horns, project as the cephalic fins from the front of the head.
		The Tasmanian devil is named for the Australian island-state of Tasmania, its only native habitat.
		The critics and the public both realized that his novels were serious studies of mankind, and Dreyfus was eventually...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9030159 (783 words)

	Amazon.com: The Devils : The Possessed: Books: Fyodor Dostoyevsky,David Magarshack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, Devils (1871-2), also known as The Possessed, is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray that follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town.
		The novel concerns a small band of Russian intellectuals, atheists, socialists, anarchists, and various other rabble who are distributing subversive leaflets in an attempt to incite the proletariat to revolt against the government.
		Dostoevsky's description of these men as "devils" is a biblical allusion to the book of Luke, translating Christ's power to drive the devils out of a possessed man into a herd of swine to the cleansing of Russia of its nefarious political elements.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140440356?v=glance (2926 words)

	Burry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		For example, his use of fl-clad stagehands derived from Japanese Bunraki puppet theater offers what could be seen as a concrete representation of devils, thus adding another interpretation of a title that already has several possible points of reference in the novel.
		They conspicuously control and censor the action of the novel, preparing a noose for Stavrogin and cutting off the last lines of the narrator as he informs us of the protagonist’s sanity.
		His adaptation thus testifies to a Dostoevskian influence based not only on choice of material, confluence of ideas and the applicability of the novel’s material to Wajda’s historical context, but also on a similarity of creative method that contributed greatly to the director’s personal artistic development.
	aatseel.org /program/aatseel/2000/abstract-225.html (556 words)

	The Devils, a CurtainUp review
		Her excisions may have been done with Henry James' description of Dostoevsky's works as "baggy monsters" and "fluid puddings" and a "defiance of economy and architecture" ringing in her ear.
		For those unfamiliar with the novel the inclusion of some background program notes and perhaps an interview with the playwright would have gone far towards an enhanced appreciation of the fascinating changes wrought from the inspirational source.
		To summarize the sprawling drama fashioned from the even more sprawling novel, the story revolves around a core group of talky and inept revolutionaries, who may or may not comprise one group of many.
	www.curtainup.com /devils.html (1172 words)

	OUP: Devils: Dostoevsky
		Devils, also known in English as The Possessed and The Demons, was first published in 1871-2.
		The third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, it is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray which follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town.
		Dostoevsky compares infectious radicalism to the devils that drove the Gadarene swine over the precipice in his vision of a society possessed by demonic creatures that produce devastating delusions of rationality.
	www.oup.co.uk /isbn/0-19-283829-6?version=1 (303 words)

	The Possessed, the stage version
		Written in 1872 and inspired by a political assassination in 1869, previous translations of this novel were erroneously titled The Possessed.
		“Then went the devils out of the man and entered into the swine; and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake and were choked.
		The entire novel takes place in a small town outside of Petersberg and is narrated by a man named Mr.
	shows.vtheatre.net /devils/title.html (1344 words)

	Excessive Candour
		The implications of the second secret, which is that the deadly White Devils of the title are not gengineered from chimpanzee stock but from human genes directly linked to Lovegrave and other characters central to the novel, echo back and forth throughout White Devils.
		The spectrum of responses to the central, plot-engendering event of the novel, the sudden deadly appearance of feral gengineered monkeylike monsters from across the Congo, is similarly complex; and a traversal of these responses, within the mind of the novel's main protagonist, strings that spectrum into storyable form.
		What is important is that, like the White Devils, and like Matthew Faber, who helped create them along with the Gentle People who are their shadows, and like every human being upon the planet, Hyde bears the abyss of the other within him.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue353/excess.html (1542 words)

	Devils - Opinions and Reviews
		Dostoyevsky hoped, in this novel, to rally the Russian upper classes to turn away from their own nihilistic self-absorption and identify with the masses, to avert the real revolution he saw coming.
		The title, translated variously as THE POSSESSED or DEMONS refers to the tide of new political ideas that spread through Russia in the late 19th century--ideas Dostoyevsky saw as dangerous and destructive.
		devil in a woodpile in your lonesome town
	www.dsml.org /products/devils (199 words)

	Devils or The Possessed
		Toted as an antirevolutionary novel, The Possessed does not blame the individuals for the violence, but the violence of the ideas in which they believed.
		The dark humor, so prevalent in the novel is all but missing from the play.
		His subsequent novel, The Plague (La Peste, 1947) depicted a city under siege by a mysterious plague that, like Nazism, intimidated and terrorized many, but also called forth a heroic determination to fight against it.
	shows.vtheatre.net /devils/intro.html (2153 words)

	Amazon.com: Fisher of Devils: Books: Steve Redwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Devil and Saint have their hidden agendas, but are gradually forced into a dubious partnership.
		FISHER OF DEVILS is a fun, funny, thoughtful, memorable book that will most likely stick with you long after you've read it, and deserves a place beside GOOD OMENS in your collection of Apocalyptic Comedic Fantasy -- though as far as I'm concerned, FISHER is a far better and funnier novel than OMENS.
		The Adam from the Fisher of Devils is not the Adam of the Bible.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1894815416?v=glance (1216 words)

	Dostoevsky's "The Devils", William J. Leatherbarrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Devils is one of Dostoevsky's four major novels--and the most openly political of his works.
		Known by several names, including The Demons and The Possessed, this novel often anchors courses of Dostoevsky's works.
		This critical companion contains essays that shed light on both the tricky literary structure of the novel and its social and political components.
	nupress.northwestern.edu /title.cfm?ISBN=0-8101-1444-5 (77 words)

	Excessive Candour
		Even the weather isn't as we remember it clearly once being; never lately does there come a summer day such as we remember, never clouds as white as that, never grass as odorous or shade as deep and full of promise as we remember they can be, as once upon a time they were.
		The second section is a social novel set mostly in a London obsessed by the threat of Napoleon—the gonzo Jane Austen style here deployed, as well as some plot elements (the feted newcomer to London hustled by ephebes from one familiar scene to another, while secret calumnies accumulate around him, etc.)—remind one of Susanna Clarke's
		A little further into the novel, we learn that the mysterious stranger who has possession of and sells the original manuscript to Ada in 1852 is also a dead ringer for John Crowley, sans earring.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue421/excess.html (1879 words)

	IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The novel is full of buffoonery and grotesque comedy, and the plot is loosely based on the details of a notorious case of political murder." (Synopsis from Amazon.com)
		Two lines of potential narrative develop in the novel: the naval adventure and the domestic plot.
		The author writes, "The novel's overwhelmingly polemical and prophetic vision of Russian politics has distracted attention from yet another variety of possession that forms part of the work's structure: the appropriation of pre-existing artistic texts for alien purposes.
	www.ipl.org:3000 /div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?ti=dev-416 (872 words)

	Devils Tiger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		That's the premise behind this suspense-filled novel from one of Texas' best-known authors.
		The suspense of the tiger hunt is surpassed only by the spine-tingling terror of a tiger stalking its victim—be it human or the tracking dogs that fall prey.
		ROBERT FLYNN is the author of five novels, including the award-winning Wanderer Springs and North to Yesterday, two short-story collections, a memoir about the war in Vietnam, and a book for children.
	www.tamu.edu /upress/books/2000/flynn.htm (644 words)

	Devils Hole, a novel by Bill Branon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Copies of Bill Branon's first novel, Let Us Prey — from the last remaining stockpile of the original, self-published, Black Seal Press edition which won notice as a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year" — have been flying off the shelves since we first started offering them earlier this year.
		Many of you have called in, right from the start, asking whether we could also locate original hardcover copies of Branon's subsequent three novels, Devil's Hole; the lyric adult fairy tale Timesong (written for Branon's dying mother), and his critically acclaimed but never properly promoted novel of shipwreck and drug-running in the Caribbees, Spider Snatch.
		Assuming Captain Branon manages to finish and release his fifth book, the autobiographical novel of his MK-ULTRA years which promises to "tie all the strings together," what value will then be set on having a copy of the first edition of each of the five?
	www.libertybookshop.us /mall/Devils-Hole.htm (1171 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In Michael Crichton's new novel, the villains are very small and very hungry.
		As the hero of Michael Crichton's "Prey" (HarperCollins; $26.95) is delivered by helicopter to a remote laboratory in the Nevada desert, readers may well feel that they've made this trip before.
		It's a good nightmare but a poor premise for a Crichton novel, in that it's hard to anthropomorphize, and unlikely to be solved by running around.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/books?021202crbo_books1 (1212 words)

	THE VISCONTI DEVILS
		My next novel to hit print is The Visconti Devils, a paranormal romance due out in September 2006.
		Just remember - Speak of the Devil, and he appears.
		Four Devil cards, missing from the Visconti Tarots since the 15th century.
	home.earthlink.net /~dragonria/id1.html (88 words)

	Aldous Huxley - Brave New World and other works - Extensive information including online texts, discussion forum, links ...
		vienna- Huxley on Self-Transcedence: The Epilog of The Devils of Loudun.
		Includes the following subjects: novel, plot, characters, setting, themes, point of view, form and structure, style, the story summarized, a step beyond, tests and answers, term paper ideas, glossary, critics, advisory board, and bibliography.
		Aldous Huxley himself narrated this hour long adaptation of his dystopic novel of a quickly nearing future in which society manufactures babies for specific roles in life and people control and mellow their experience with the drug Soma...
	somaweb.org /w/sub/BraveNewWorldfulltext.html (1284 words)

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