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The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Hardcover, 2003)

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The illegitimate son of a landowner and his common-law peasant wife Arkady Dolgoruky has scarcely seen these parents during his nineteen years of life. The confrontation with them does not turn out quite as he imagined it.

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The illegitimate son of a landowner and his common-law peasant wife, Arkady Dolgoruky has scarcely seen these parents during his nineteen years of life. In a narrative combining farce and pathos, Dostoevsky describes Arkady's visit to St Petersburg in search of the 'accidental family' who have dominated his dreams. The confrontation with them does not turn out quite as he imagined it. This relatively late novel, written in the last decade of the author's life, nevertheless captures the exuberance and embarrassments, the bliss and bale of adolescence in all its volatility and uncertainty.