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Hero Of Our Time
Paperback Edition: 1/2009
A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later nineteenth-century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov. Lermontov'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 up a portrait of a man caught in and expressing the sickness of his times.
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Publisher : Penguin Books
Publication date : 2009-10-01
Subjects: Fiction, Classics (pre C.1945), Contemporary, Historical Fiction