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Hero of Our Time

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ISBN-10: 0143105639

ISBN-13: 9780143105633

Edition: 2009

Authors: Mikhail Lermontov, Natasha Randall, Neil LaBute, Neil Labute, Neil LaBute

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A brilliant new translation of a perennial favorite of Russian Literature The first major Russian novel, A Hero of Our Timewas both lauded and reviled upon publication. Its dissipated hero, twenty-five-year-old Pechorin, is a beautiful and magnetic but nihilistic young army officer, bored by life and indifferent to his many sexual conquests. Chronicling his unforgettable adventures in the Caucasus involving brigands, smugglers, soldiers, rivals, and lovers, this classic tale of alienation influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov in Lermontov’s own century, and finds its modern-day counterparts in Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, the novels of Chuck Palahniuk, and the films and…    
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Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/26/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.04" wide x 7.68" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English