The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na•ve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he...
A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories (1870, 1899),
by Ivan Turgenev
(1818-1883) Translated from the Russian
by Constance Black Garnett
Table of Contents
Introduction, by Edward Garnett, 1898
A Lear of the...
Pyotr and Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the Tsar, destroy society, and seize power for themselves. Together they train terrorists who are willing to lay down their lives to accomplish their...