The Adolescent
also published as The Raw Youth or An Accidental Family
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Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
DO NOT BUY: Missing chunk of text!!!
This text randomly skips all of chapter 5 and big chunks of chapters 4 and 6 - I didn’t even realise I had missed something until I checked a different edition. I am *really* not a fan of the business model where people get to make $0.99 a pop just for spending ten minutes copying and pasting text from some public domain source!