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A Hero of Our Time
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99A Hero of Our Time is a short novel by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839 and revised in 1841. It is an example of the superfluous man novel, noted for its compelling Byronic hero (or anti-hero) Pechorin and for the beautiful descriptions of the Caucasus. There are several English translations, including one by Vladimir Nabokov in 1958. Excerpted... more...
A Hero of Our Time
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 14.00A brilliant new translation of a perennial favorite of Russian Literature The first major Russian novel, A Hero of Our Time was both lauded and reviled upon publication. Its dissipated hero, twenty-five-year-old Pechorin, is a beautiful and magnetic but nihilistic young army officer, bored by life and indifferent to his many sexual conquests.... more...
A Hero of Our Time
Penguin Books Ltd 2001; Not AvailableA masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later 19th century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov. Lermotov's hero, Pechorin, is a dangerous man, Byronic in his wasted gifts and his cynicism, and desperate for any kind of action that will stave off boredom. In five linked episodes, Lermontov builds... more...
A Hero of Our Time
Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 14.00(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)In its adventurous happenings?its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues? A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and ?30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorin?the archetypal Russian antihero?Lermontov?s novel looks forward... more...
A Hero Of Our Time
Overlook 2009; US$ 12.99A brilliant new translation of a perennial favorite of Russian Literature The first major Russian novel, A Hero of Our Time was both lauded and reviled upon publication. Its dissipated hero, twenty-five-year-old Pechorin, is a beautiful and magnetic but nihilistic young army officer, bored by life and indifferent to his many sexual conquests.... more...
A Hero of Our Time
OUP Oxford 2013; US$ 8.99After all that - how, you might wonder, could one not become a fatalist?'Lermontov's hero, Pechorin, is a young army officer posted to the Caucasus, where his adventures - amorous and reckless - do nothing to alleviate his boredom and cynicism. World-weary and self-destructive, Pechorin is alienated from those around him yet he is full of passion... more...
A Hero of Our Time
Digireads.com Publishing 2004; US$ 7.49In five linked episodes, Lermontov builds up the portrait of a man caught up in and expressing the sickness of his times. more...
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