Author: Mihail Lermontov
Publisher: Anchor A133
Year: 1958      Print: 1 Cover Price: $.95
Condition: Very Good P;us. Light wear. 
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 210
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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.