Hero of Our Time: Introduction by T. J. Binyon

Mikhail Lermontov, Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov

ISBN 10: 0679413278 / ISBN 13: 9780679413271

Published by Everyman's Library June 1992, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hero of Our Time: Introduction by T. J. Binyon
• Publisher: Everyman's Library June 1992
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679413278
• ISBN 13: 9780679413271
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
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Synopsis

A stunning collector's hardcover edition of Mikhail Lermontov's classic of Russian literature.

In its adventurous happenings--its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues--A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and '30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorin--the archetypal Russian antihero--Lermontov's novel looks forward to the subsequent glories of a Russian literature that it helped, in great measure, to make possible.

This edition includes a Translator's Foreword by Vladimir Nabokov, who translated the novel in collaboration with his son, Dmitri Nabokov.

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a jacket. Everyman's Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

About the Author

MIKHAIL LERMONTOV was born in Moscow in 1814. Influential as a poet, novelist, and visual artist, Lermontov died in 1941 at the age of 26.

VLADIMIR NABOKOV was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1899. After studying French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, he launched his literary career in Berlin and Paris. In 1940 he moved to the United States, here he achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. Lolita, arguably his most famous novel, was first published, by the Olympia Press, Paris, on September 15, 1955, and became a controversial success. Nabokov died in Montreux Switzerland in 1977.