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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100140447954

ISBN-139780140447958

eBay Product ID (ePID)1940416

Product Key Features

Edition2

Book TitleHero of Our Time

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2001

TopicClassics, Literary, Historical

IllustratorYes

FeaturesRevised

GenreFiction

AuthorMikhail Lermontov

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight5.6 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2001-278383

Reviews"Natasha Randall's English, in her new translation, has exactly the right degree of loose velocity. . . . (Nabokov's version, the best-known older translation, is a bit more demure than Randall's, less savage.)" -James Wood, London Review of Books "[A] smart, spirited new translation." - The Boston Globe "One of the most vivid and persuasive portraits of the male ego ever put down on paper." -Neil LaBute, from the Foreword, "It's high time an up-to-date and idiomatic version of A Hero of Our Time was made available to American readers. Marion Schwartz's translation of Lermontov's classic adventure novel captures all the suppleness and wit of Lermontov's prose, the fine texture of his descriptions and the galloping rhythm of his narrative passages. This is a fine addition to the Modern Library." -- Michael Scammell "Military life in the Caucasus, bandits, duels, romance--at the hands of a passionate adventurer with "a restless imagination, an insatiable heart. That is Pechorin, and also Lermontov. If you have a personal all-time bestseller list, make room for A Hero of our Time . "-- Alan Furst "In Russia Mikhail Lermontov is considered one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. Marian Schwarz's compelling translation shows us why." -- Peter Constantine

TitleLeadingA

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Grade ToUP

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisThe first example of the psychological novel in Russia, A Hero of Our Time influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov, and other great nineteenth-century masters that followed. Its hero, Pechorin, is Byronic in his wasted gifts, his cynicism, and his desire for any kind of action-good or ill-that will stave off boredom. Outraging many critics when it was first published in 1840, A Hero of Our Time follows Pechorin as he embarks on an exciting adventure involving brigands, smugglers, soldiers, rivals, and lovers. This edition includes a new introduction, chronology, suggestions for further reading, maps, and full explanatory notes.

LC Classification NumberPG3337.L4G4133 2001