A Hero of Our Time
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Dueling, kidnapping, and murder combine with drawing-room flirtation, deception, and betrayal to create the intense, thought-provoking narrative of Mikhail Lermontov sA Hero of Our Time. The novel recounts the adventures of Grigory Pechorin, an enigmatic Russian officer stationed in the Caucasus Mountains in the 1830s. Here he mingles with Russians and mountain tribes-people who clash in the frontier territory in southern Russia. Lermontov tells a story that continues to resonate though time and can still be read in today s headlines.
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- ISBN: 9780760783412
- Author: Mikhail Lermontov
- Pub date: 31.12.07
- RRP: $19.99
- Format: Paperback / softback
Author
Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Lermontov is regarded as one of the foremost masters of Russian prose on the singular basis of A Hero of Our Time, his only novel. Many also consider him Russia s second-greatest poet after Alexander Pushkin, the subject of Lermontov s poem Death of a Poet, an overnight sensation. Lermontov was poised for even greater literary success when he was killed in a duel at the age of twenty-six.