Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
Demons
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
The Insulted and Humiliated
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
The Village of Stepanchikovo
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
Poor Folk
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
The Cossacks
by Leo Tolstoy | 
Rudin
by Ivan Turgenev | 
The Eternal Husband
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
Home of the Gentry
by Ivan Turgenev | 
Oblomov
by Ivan Goncharov | 
The Captain's Daughter
by Alexander Pushkin | 
A Hero of Our Time
by Mikhail Lermontov | 
The House of the Dead
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
First Love
by Ivan Turgenev | 
Resurrection
by Leo Tolstoy | 
The Gambler
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
Netochka Nezvanova
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
Taras Bulba
by Nikolai Gogol |
The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky's novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naive 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father's wrongdoing and the desire to win his love. He travels to St. Petersburg to confront the father he barely knows, inspired by an inchoate dream of communion and armed with a mysterious document that he believes gives him power over others.