num_pages: 186
description: 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, Dmitri Nabokov.
language: English
title: A Hero of Our Time
titlecomplete: A Hero of Our Time
characters: Dr. Werner, Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin, Grushnitsky, Bela, Vera (A Hero of Our Time), Vulich, Maxim Maximytch, Princess Mary, Kazbich
genres: Fiction, School, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Russia
ratings_count: 57058
places: Caucasus
publisher: Everyman's Library