The Adolescent (Everyman's Library, 270) - Hardcover

Fyodor Dostoevsky; Richard Pevear; Larissa Volokhonsky

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857152700 ISBN 13: 9781857152708

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 2003

Synopsis

Nineteen-year-old Arkady Dolgonsky has difficulty establishing his personal identity amid the political and social upheavals of nineteenth-century Russia

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From the Back Cover:

“In the variety of its happenings, the assortment of its characters, the intensity of its passions, and the effect of its conflicts, The Adolescent is the most captivating of all Dostoevsky’s novels.”
—Konstantin Mochulsky, author of Dostoevsky: His Life and Work
Praise for Previous Translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Winners of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize

THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
“One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky’s original.”
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“It may well be that Dostoevsky’s [world], with all its resourceful energies of life and language, is only now—and through the medium of [this] new translation—beginning to come home to the English-speaking reader.”
—NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

“The best [translation] currently available . . . An especially faithful re-creation . . . with a coiled-spring kinetic energy . . . Don’t miss it.”
—WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

“Reaches as close to Dostoevsky’s Russian as is possible in English . . . the original’s force and frightening immediacy is captured . . . The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation will become the standard version.”
—CHICAGO TRIBUNE

DEMONS

“The merit in this edition of Demons resides in the technical virtuosity of the translators . . . They capture the feverishly intense, personal explosions of activity and emotion that manifest themselves in Russian life.”
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“[Pevear and Volokhonsky] come into their own when faced with Dostoevsky’s wonderfully quirky use of varied speech patterns . . . A capital job of restoration.”
—LOS ANGELES TIMES

From the Inside Flap:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1857152700
• ISBN 13: 9781857152708
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 580