A Hero Of Our Time: Mikhail Lermontov (Everyman's Library CLASSICS) - Hardcover

Lermontov, Mikhail

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857150783 ISBN 13: 9781857150780

Publisher: Everyman, 1992

Synopsis

Set in the Caucasus, the scene of Russia's military campaigns in the 19th century, this is both an adventure story and a sardonic look at the heroic ideals of the author's contemporaries - which makes it all the more ironic that the main character, Pushkin, (like the author) was killed in a duel.

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About the Author

One of the twentieth century's master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) was born in St Petersburg, but left Russia when the Bolsheviks seized power. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.

His first novel in English was The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, published in 1941. His other books include Ada or Ardor (1969), Laughter in the Dark (1933), Pale Fire (1962), the short story collection Details of a Sunset (1976) and Lolita (1955), his best-known novel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Everyman
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857150783
• ISBN 13: 9781857150780
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232