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Hero of Our Timeby Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:#LINK A brilliant new translation of a perennial favorite of Russian Literature >#The first major Russian novel, A Hero of Our Time was 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 plays of Neil LaBute.
#LINK My plan to seduce her is simple: act like I always have better things to do, insult her, and act as though I have nothing left to live for. Apparently she’s begging for an introduction? I wonder if this kind of thing works in real life? From #LINK What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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># @BAMF Who is that sublime woman? She is perfect. Oh, excellent: Grushinsky seems to like her. I’m going to cock-block him. How typically me. 
