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A Hero of Our Time
- Author
- Mikhail Lermontov
- Narrator
- Clive Chafer
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 29 March 2016
- Run Time
- 6 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
First published in Russia as Geroy Nashego Vremeni, A Hero of Our Time is set in the Russian Caucasus in the 1830s.
In A Hero of Our Time, Grigory Pechorin is a bored, self-centered, and cynical young army officer who believes in nothing. With impunity he toys with the love of women and the goodwill of men. He is brave, determined, and willful, but his wasted energy and potential ultimately result in tragedy.
This psychologically probing portrait of a disillusioned nineteenth-century aristocrat and its use of a nonchronological and multifaceted narrative structure influenced such later Russian authors as Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy and presaged the antiheroes and antinovels of twentieth-century fiction.
Critics Review
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“If you have a personal all-time bestseller list, make room for A Hero of Our Time.”
Alan Furst, New York Times bestselling author
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“In Russia Mikhail Lermontov is considered one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century.”
Peter Constantine, award-winning literary translator
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Details
- Author
- Mikhail Lermontov
- Narrator
- Clive Chafer
- Duration
- 6 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 March 2016
- ISBN
- 9781504715614
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Classic fiction, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
First published in Russia as Geroy Nashego Vremeni, A Hero of Our Time is set in the Russian Caucasus in the 1830s.In A Hero of Our Time, Grigory Pechorin is a bored, self-centered, and cynical young army officer who believes in nothing. With impunity he toys with the love of women and the goodwill of men. He is brave, determined, and willful, but his wasted energy and potential ultimately result in tragedy.This psychologically probing portrait of a disillusioned nineteenth-century aristocrat and its use of a nonchronological and multifaceted narrative structure influenced such later Russian authors as Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy and presaged the antiheroes and antinovels of twentieth-century fiction.
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