A hero of our time
By Mikhail Lermontov
- Publication Year (This Edition): 1958
- Year of First Publication: 1958
- Publication Type: Book
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0385093446
- Library: Pusthakalaya · Washington, D. C.
- Call number: PG3337.L4 G4133 1958
- Translator: Vladimir Nabokov in collaboration with Dmitri Nabokov
- Publisher: Anchor Books
- Place of Publication: Garden City, NY
- Original Price: 2.50 USD
In five linked episodes, Lermontov builds up the portrait of a man caught up in and expressing the sickness of his times. A marvelous novel and an early landmark in Russian literature, A Hero of Our Time served as an inspiration for many later Russian authors, including Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.