The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dora O'Brien (Translator)

The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dora O'Brien (Translator)The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevskys novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a nave 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 fathers 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

and he’s sent to live in an old folk’s home run by the sinister Matron Swine

and often profound

living on the windswept and wild English coastline

he asked for no control over what was written

and the solitary nature of storytelling and writing

Many Indian nationalists regard him as one of the earliest thinkers who dreamt of a united India

and her violent rampage of revenge

Propelling you from our home solar system to the outermost frontiers of space

When Anna's finger vanishes and a few months later her knee disappears

brimming with insights that can help all traders improve their outcomes

preppy friend Windsor Horne Lockwood III

geniuses and the quite mad - above all it has an unforgettable heroine in Alma Whittaker