Publisher's Synopsis
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov
In its adventurous events, its kidnappings, duels and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Time looks back at the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so loved by Russian society in the 1820s and 1930s. In the character of Its protagonist, Pechorin, the archetypal Russian antihero, Lermontov's novel looks forward to the later glories and passion of Russian literature that it helped, to a great extent, to make possible.
