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A Hero Of Our Time

Hardback

Main Details

Title A Hero Of Our Time
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Mikhail Lermontov
Translated by Vladimir Nabokov
Introduction by T. J. Binyon
Translated by Dmitri Nabokov
SeriesEveryman's Library CLASSICS
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:232
Dimensions(mm): Height 211,Width 130
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781857150780
ClassificationsDewey:891.733
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Everyman
Imprint Everyman's Library
Publication Date 4 June 1992
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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.