| A Hero of Our Time Contributor(s): Lermontov, M. Y. (Author), Wisdom, J. H. (Translator), Murray, Marr (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1618953869 ISBN-13: 9781618953865 Publisher: Bibliotech Press OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Romance - Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.86 lbs) 158 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Novel by Mikhail Lermontov, published in Russian in 1840 as Geroy nashego vremeni. Its psychologically probing portrait of a disillusioned 19th-century aristocrat and its use of a nonchronological and multifaceted narrative structure influenced such later Russian authors as Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy and presaged the antiheroes and antinovels of 20th-century fiction. The novel is set in the Russian Caucasus in the 1830s. Grigory Pechorin is a bored, self-centered, and cynical young army officer who believes in nothing. With impunity he toys with the love of women and the goodwill of men. ... |