A Hero of Our Time

by Mikhail Lermontov, Paul Foote

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About this book

In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Timelooks 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 to the subsequent glories of a Russian literature that it helped, in great measure, to make possible.

Book Details

ISBN13	9780140441765
ISBN10	014044176X
Series/Work	OL1579286W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher	Penguin Classics
Language	ENG
Created At	January 30, 2025
Updated At	January 30, 2025
Last OL update	January 18, 2025

Subjects

Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author) Fiction History and criticism History, Military Military History Readers Russia (federation), fiction Russian fiction Russian language Russian literature Social life and customs Soviet union, fiction

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