The adolescent

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Original title: Подросток

Also published as: An Accidental Family

earliest edition we have, 1916 Actes Sud, 1997 paperback

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The Raw Youth (Russian: Подросток, Podrostok), also published as The Adolescent or An Accidental Family, is a novel by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in monthly installments in 1875 in the Russian literary magazine Notes of the Fatherland. Originally, Dostoevsky had created the work under the title "Discord".

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This book in English

Larissa Volokhonsky 2 printings we hold · 2004 · Vintage
Richard Freeborn 1 printing we hold · 1994 · Oxford University Press, USA

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Editions we hold

A Raw Youth hardcover · 2011 · Oxford City Press · 624 pages · 9781849023917
Podrostok. hardcover · 2005 · AST (M.)
The Adolescent edition · 2004 · Vintage · 608 pages · 9780375719004
The adolescent hardcover · 2004 · Alfred A. Knopf · 580 pages
Adolescent. edition · 2003 · Everyman's Library · 580 pages
The adolescent edition · 2003 · Norton & Co. · 566 pages
A Raw Youth paperback · 2001 · University Press of the Pacific · 568 pages · 9780898753172
An Accidental Family (Oxford World's Classics) paperback · 2001 · Oxford Univ Pr (T) · 640 pages · 9780192837059
Der Jüngling. Roman. paperback · 2000 · Piper · 918 pages · 9783492204040
Adolescente, El paperback · 1998 · Juventud · 9788426155344
L'Adolescent paperback · 1998 · Gallimard · 649 pages · 9782070405527
Der Jüngling. paperback · 1998 · Piper · 918 pages · 9783492028738

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