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A Hero of Our Time

Lermontov, Mikhail IUrevich (Book - 2004)
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A Hero of Our Time


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(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

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(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 to the subsequent glories of a Russian literature that it helped, in great measure, to make possible.This edition includes a Translator's Foreword by Vladimir Nabokov, who translated the novel in collaboration with his son, Dmitri Nabokov.

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Additional Contributors: Schwartz, Marian
Imprint: New York - Modern Library
Pages: 166
Edition: Modern Library pbk ed
ISBN: 0812970764, 0679413278
Call number: FICTION LERMONTOV
Language: English and Russian
Statement of responsibility: Mikhail Lermontov ; translated, with a preface and notes, by Marian Schwartz ; introduction by Gary Shteyngart
Characteristics: xxi, 166 p. :,map ;,21 cm
Author (Original Script): Lermontov, Mikhail IUrevich
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