A Raw Youth

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Publisher:

Macmillan Co.

, 1916

Overview

Also published as The Adolescent, this novel follows the life of 19-year-old intellectual Arkady Dolgoruky, the illegitimate child of a controversial and womanizing landowner. The story follows the conflict of father and son, each representatives of the different cultural ideals of Russia in the 1840s and 1860s, respectively. Pitting Russian tradition against both nihilism and progressive Western European values, Arkady becomes entangled with socialist conspiracies, the quest for wealth, and a young widow with a mysterious letter.

Product Details

• Title: A Raw Youth
• Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Series: The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Volume: VII
• Publisher: Macmillan Co.
• Print Publication Date: 1916
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 575
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 › Translations into English; Fathers and sons › Fiction; Russia › Fiction
• Resource ID: LLS:RAWYOUTH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:44:19Z

About Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821 – February 9, 1881) was a Russian writer of novels, short stories and essays. He is best known for his novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoyevsky’s literary works explored human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society.