num_pages: 608
description: "Not till J. D. Salinger created Holden Caulfield has there ever been so convincing a portrait of an adolescent."― Toronto Daily Star The fourth of Dostoevsky's five major novels, this is the story of a nineteen-year-old searching for identity amid the disorder of Russian society in the 1870s. Arkady is the illegitimate child of a landowner and the wife of his estate's gardener. He has refused to go to university, instead traveling to St. Petersburg in pursuit of a secret goal―and of a relationship with his father.
language: English
title: The Adolescent
titlecomplete: The Adolescent
characters: Andrei Petrovich Versilov, Arkady Makarovich Dolgoruky, Katerina Nikolaevna Akhmakov
genres: Russia, Unfinished, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Psychology, Russian Literature, Classics, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 8576
places: St. Petersburg
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company