{"product_id":"the-adolescent-new-translation-9781847494993","title":"The Adolescent: New Translation","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Alma Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Alma Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong Dostoevsky's later novels, The Adolescent occupies a very special place: published three years after The Devils and five years before his final masterpiece, The Karamazov Brothers, the novel charts the story of nineteen-year-old Arkady - the illegitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the maid Sofia Andreyevna - as he struggles to find his place in society and \"become a Rothschild\" against the background of 1870s Russia, a nation still tethered to its old systems and values but shaken up by the new ideological currents of socialism and nihilism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth a Bildungsroman and a novel of ideas, dealing with themes such as the relationship between fathers and sons and the role of money in modern society, The Adolescent - here presented in a brand-new translation by Dora O'Brien - shows Dostoevsky at his finest as a social commentator and observer of the workings of a young man's mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alma Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45046845571223,"sku":"9781847494993","price":841.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781847494993.webp?v=1769219118","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-adolescent-new-translation-9781847494993","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}