A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics)

by Mikhail Lermontov (Author), Mikhail Lermontov (Author), Natasha Randall (Translator)

• Used

  Illustrated
  2009

  $4.66

  A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later nineteenth-century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov. Lermontov's hero, Pechorin, is a dangerous man, Byronic in his wasted gifts and his cynicism, and desperate for any kind of action that will stave off boredom. In five linked episodes, Lermontov builds up a portrait of a man caught in and expressing the sickness of his times.

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $134.23

  The prose masterpiece by the Russian poet who wrote on such themes as rebellion and personal suffering.

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $15.36

  A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later 19th century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov. Lermotov's hero, Pechorin, is a dangerous man, Byronic in his wasted gifts and his cynicism, and desperate for any kind of action that will stave off boredom. In five linked episodes, Lermontov builds up a portrait of a man caught in and expressing the sickness of his times.