The illegitimate son of a landowner and his common-law peasant wife,Arkady Dolgoruky has scarcely seen these parents during his nineteen years of life. In a narrative combining farce and pathos,Dostoevsky describes Arkady's visit to St Petersburg in search of the'accidental family'who have dominated his dreams. The confrontation with them does not turn out quite as he imagined it. This relatively late novel,written in the last decade of the author's life,nevertheless captures the exuberance and embarrassments,the bliss and bale of adolescence in all its volatility and uncertainty.
Publisher: EverymanISBN: 9781857152708Number of pages: 528Weight: 649 gDimensions: 212 x 135 x 33 mm
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
An undisputable giant of Russian fiction,Fyodor Dostoevsky remains one of the most widely read Russian writers,best known for iconic novels Crime and Punishment and Brothers Karamazov.
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