A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics)

Type

Book

Authors

Mikhail Lermontov

ISBN 10

0143105639

ISBN 13

9780143105633

Tags

Classics, Historical, Short Stories, Romance, War & Military, Literary, Victorian, Military, Romantic Comedy, Action & Adventure, Literature

Description

A brilliant new translation of a perennial favorite of Russian literature The first major Russian novel, A Hero of Our Time was both lauded and reviled upon publication. Its dissipated hero, twenty-five-year-old Pechorin, is a beautiful and magnetic but nihilistic young army officer, bored by life and indifferent to his many sexual conquests. Chronicling his unforgettable adventures in the Caucasus involving brigands, smugglers, soldiers, rivals, and lovers, this classic tale of alienation influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov in Lermontov's own century, and finds its modern-day counterparts in Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, the novels of Chuck Palahniuk, and the films and plays of Neil LaBute. - from Amzon

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