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A Hero of Our Time »
Authors: Mikhail Lermontov, Marian Schwartz (Translator), Gary Shteyngart
ISBN-13: 9780812970760, ISBN-10: 0812970764
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: July 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) is renowned as Russia's one true Romantic poet. He was killed in a duel, one of a number he fought in during his lifetime.
Neil Labute is a filmmaker and playwright whose work includes In the Company of Men and The Shape of Things.
Natasha Randall has published translations of Yevgeny Zamyatin's We (shortlisted for the 2008 Oxford- Weidenfeld Translation Prize) and Osip Mandelstam's poetry. She is a frequent contributor to theLos Angeles Times.
Book Synopsis
Treachery and sexual intrigue abound in this gripping and influential Russian novel. Its picaresque tales trace a Byronic hero's exploits amid the rugged Caucasian frontier.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | ||
| Part one | ||
| I | Bela | 7 |
| II | Maxim Maximich | 44 |
| Pechorin's journal | ||
| I | Taman | 59 |
| Part two | ||
| II | Princess Mary | 75 |
| III | The fatalist | 151 |
Subjects
Fiction Books & Literature
Fiction & Literature Classics European Fiction & Literature Classics
Fiction Books & Literature Fiction Subjects Conflicts - Fiction
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