title: The Adolescent (Vintage Classics)
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
description: <b>The Adolescent</b> is the most captivating of Dostoevskys novels. Konstantin Mochulsky, author of <b>Dostoevsky: His Life and Work</b><i><br /><br /></i>Praise for previous Dostoevsky translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky<br /><b>The Brothers Karamazo</b><i>v:</i><br />One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevekys original. <i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br /><b>Crime and Punishment</b><i>:</i><br />"The best [translation] currently available . . . an especially faithful recreation . . . with a coiled-spring kinetic energy. . . . Don't miss it." <i>The Washington Post Book World<br /></i><b>Demons</b><i>:<br /></i>A capital job of restoration." --<i>Los Angeles Times</i>
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