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A Hero of Our Time

by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

Novels19th CenturyLiteratureRussiaFictionRussian LiteratureClassics
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~576 min

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A HERO OF OUR TIME

By J. H. Wisdom & Marr Murray

Translated From The Russian Of M. Y. Lermontov

FOREWORD

THIS novel, known as one of the masterpieces of Russian Literature, under the title “A Hero of our Time,” and already translated into at least nine European languages, is now for the first time placed before the general English Reader.

The work is of exceptional interest to the student of English Literature, written as it was under the profound influence of Byron and being itself a study of the Byronic type of character.

The Translators have taken especial care to preserve both the atmosphere of the story and the poetic beauty with which the Poet-novelist imbued his pages.

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

BOOK I BELA

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

BOOK II MAKSIM MAKSIMYCH

FOREWORD TO BOOKS III, IV, AND V

BOOK III THE FIRST EXTRACT FROM PECHORIN’S DIARY

TAMAN

BOOK IV THE SECOND EXTRACT FROM PECHORIN’S DIARY

BOOK V THE THIRD EXTRACT FROM PECHORIN’S DIARY

CHAPTER I. 11th May.

CHAPTER II. 13th May.

CHAPTER III. 16th May.

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