A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov

A Hero of Our Time

Mikhail Lermontov with Paul Foote (Translator)

208 pages first pub 1840 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
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The 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, an...

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