A Hero of Our Time Paperback by Mikhail Lermontov

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics (2001-10-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 208 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780140447958
• Item Weight: 158.76 grams
• Dimensions: 7.66 x 5.05 x 0.5 cm

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, and his desire for any kind of action-good or ill-that will stave off boredom. Outraging many critics when it was first published in 1840, A Hero of Our Time follows Pechorin as he embarks on an exciting adventure involving brigands, smugglers, soldiers, rivals, and lovers.

This edition includes a new introduction, chronology, suggestions for further reading, maps, and full explanatory notes.

 

About the Author

Paul Foote was, until his retirement, a university lecturer in Russian and fellow of The Queen’s College, Oxford.