Dostoyevsky, Fyodor  1821-1881 <br/><br/>
The adolescent 
/ Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated by Dora O'Brien. 
 - London :  Alma Classics,  2016. 
 - ix, 655 pages :  illustrations (black and white) ;  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> "New translation"--Cover. 
<br/><br/> Among Dostoevsky's later novels, The Adolescent occupies a very special place: published three years after The Devils and five years before his final masterpiece, The Karamazov Brothers, the novel charts the story of nineteen-year-old Arkady – the illegitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the maid Sofia Andreyevna – as he struggles to find his place in society and “become a Rothschild” against the background of 1870s Russia, a nation still tethered to its old systems and values but shaken up by the new ideological currents of socialism and nihilism.<br/><br/>Both a Bildungsroman and a novel of ideas, dealing with themes such as the relationship between fathers and sons and the role of money in modern society, The Adolescent – here presented in a brand-new translation by Dora O'Brien – shows Dostoevsky at his finest as a social commentator and observer of the workings of a young man's mind. 
<br/><br/><br/>Translated from the Russian. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781847494993 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016438210 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fathers and sons --Fiction--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Russia--History--1801-1917--Fiction<br/>Russia--Social life and customs--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Russian literature<br/>Literary classics
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PG3326  / .P5 2016