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The illegitimate son of a landowner, Arkady Dolgoruky was raised by foster parents and tutors, and has scarcely ever seen his father, Versilov, and his mother, Versilov's peasant common-law wife. Arkady goes to Petersburg to meet this "accidental family" and to confront the father who dominates his imagination and whom he both disdains and longs to impress. Having sewn into his coat a document that he believes gives him power over others, Arkady proceeds with an irrepressible youthful volatility that withstands blunders and humiliations at every turn. Dostoyevsky masterfully depicts adolescence as a state of uncertainty, ignorance, and incompleteness, but also of richness and exuberance, in which everything is still possible. His tale of a youth finding his way in the disorder of Russian society in the 1870s is a high and serious comedy that borders on both farce and tragedy.

 
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November 2003 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 140004118XTitle: The Adolescent (Everyman's Library)
Author(s): Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
ISBN: 1-4000-4118-X / 978-1-4000-4118-3 (USA edition)
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October 2003 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1857152700Title: The Adolescent (Everyman's Library, 270)
Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky
ISBN: 1-85715-270-0 / 9781857152708 (UK edition)
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1980 : Hardback
Title: Adolescent
Author(s): Fyodor M Dostoevsky
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE @ TRADE
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January 1971 : Hardback
Title: The Adolescent
Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher: Doubleday & Co., Garden City
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Paperback Editions

December 2004 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0375719008Title: The Adolescent
Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky
ISBN: 0-375-71900-8 / 978-0-375-71900-4 (USA edition)
Publisher: Vintage
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January 2004 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0393324907Title: The Adolescent
Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky
ISBN: 0-393-32490-7 / 978-0-393-32490-7 (USA edition)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
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April 1981 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0393009955Title: The Adolescent (Norton Paperback)
Author(s): Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
ISBN: 0-393-00995-5 / 978-0-393-00995-8 (USA edition)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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January 1972 : Paperback
Title: The Adolescent
Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher: Anchor Books
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December 2007 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B000XUDFU4Title: The Adolescent
Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky
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