A Hero of Our Time
ISBN: 9780140447958 | 0140447954
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Penguin Classics
Pub. Date: 10/1/2001
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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, Dmi... MORE
| Translator's Foreword | p. v |
| The Author's Introduction | p. 1 |
| Bela | p. 3 |
| Maksim Maksimich | p. 50 |
| Introduction to Pechorin's Journal | p. 63 |
| Taman | p. 65 |
| Princess Mary | p. 81 |
| The Fatalist | p. 182 |
| Notes | p. 195 |
| Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved. |
Paul Foote was, until his retirement, a university lecturer in Russian and fellow of The Queen’s College, Oxford.
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