The Adolescent
The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na•ve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to win his love. He travels to St. Petersburg to confront the father he barely knows, inspired by an inchoate dream of communion and armed with a mysterious document that he believes gives him power over others. This new English version by the most acclaimed of Dostoevsky’s translators is a masterpiece of pathos and high comedy.
Fyodor Mikailovich Dostoevsky’s life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821. A short first novel, Poor Folk (1846), brought him instant success, but his writing career was cut short by his arrest for alleged subversion against Tsar Nicholas I in 1849. His prison experiences coupled with his conversion to a profoundly religious philosophy formed the basis for his great novels. But it was his fortuitous marriage to Anna Snitkina, following a period of utter destitution brought about by his compulsive gambling, that gave Dostoevsky the emotional stability to complete Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868–1869), The Possessed (1871–1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880). When Dostoevsky died in 1881, he left a legacy of masterworks that influenced the great…
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from a Dead House
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Michael R. Katz
Penguin Classics Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky;Oliver Ready
The Modern Library Collection Essential Russian Novels 4-Book Bundle
Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
The Double and The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky A New Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
The Adolescent
Fyodor Dostoevsky New Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky; Introduction by Richard Pevear
Notes from Underground, the Grand Inquisitor
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Adolescent
Fyodor Dostoevsky;Andrew Macandrew
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky trans. by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky