{"product_id":"the-adolescent-new-translation","title":"The Adolescent: New Translation","description":"\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\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 672\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication year:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2016\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fyodor Dostoevsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46959820275766,"sku":"745","price":1040.0,"currency_code":"EGP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/diamond-pub.com\/ar\/products\/the-adolescent-new-translation","provider":"Diamond Pub","version":"1.0","type":"link"}