The Adolescent

Nineteen-year-old Arkady Dolgoruky arrives in St. Petersburg with a burning ambition: to become a latter-day Rothschild, amassing wealth through sheer willpower. But his plans are complicated by the reappearance of his father, the enigmatic aristocrat Andrei Versilov, whose charm and secrets threaten to shatter Arkady's world. Armed with a incriminating document that could destroy a powerful family, Arkady becomes entangled in a web of love, rivalry, and betrayal that forces him to confront the difference between power and meaning. This modern retelling preserves Dostoevsky's raw psychological drama while rendering the story in vivid, natural English for today's readers. Part of Timeless Classics.