A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics)

A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics) image
ISBN-10:

0140447954

ISBN-13:

9780140447958

Edition: Revised
Released: Oct 01, 2001
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback, 156 pages
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Description:

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.












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