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9780140441765
Hero of Our Time
by Lermontov, Mikhail, Foote, Paul, Foote, Paul
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- ISBN-13: 9780140441765
- ISBN: 014044176X
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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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.Lermontov, Mikhail is the author of 'Hero of Our Time' with ISBN 9780140441765 and ISBN 014044176X.
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