A Hero of Our Time

Lermontov, Mikhail I͡Urʹevich

Book - 1992

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Proud, wilful and charismatic, Pechorin is Byronic in his wasted gifts and bored by his stifling world. With a predatory energy for any activity that will relieve his ennui, he embarks on a series of exciting adventures, involving smugglers, brigands, soldiers, rivals and lovers, and leaves a trail of broken hearts behind him.

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Publisher: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1992

ISBN: 9780679413271
0679413278

Branch Call Number: FICTION LERMONTOV

Characteristics: xxix, 186 pages ; 22 cm

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lukasevansherman Mar 08, 2021

Classic romantic Russian novel, inspired by Byron and Walter Scott. Translated by Vladimir Nabokov and his son, Dmitri. Lermontov was killed in a duel.