false <![CDATA[A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178027612m/750487.jpg 226378 49 In its adventurous happenings&#8211;its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues&#8211;<i>A Hero of Our Time</i> looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and &#8217;30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorin&#8211;the archetypal Russian antihero&#8211;Lermontov&#8217;s novel looks forward to the subsequent glories of a Russian literature that it helped, in great measure, to make possible.<br><br>This edition includes a Translator&#8217;s Foreword by Vladimir Nabokov, who translated the novel in collaboration with his son, Dmitri Nabokov. 166902 book 1841 A Hero of Our Time total:1209|5:462|4:426|3:269|2:43|1:9| 1209 4916 1648 120 226378 014044176X 9780140441765 863 76 A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics) 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218327002m/226378.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226378.A_Hero_of_Our_Time 3 1 false Tue Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 12:52:05 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 22:08:11 -0800 2008
The so-called hero of this ...more...]]> 975280 0875010490 9780875010496 9 1 Hero of Our Time (World's Classics) 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179939042m/975280.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/975280.Hero_of_Our_Time 4 1 false Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 08:13:59 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 12:58:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 226378 014044176X 9780140441765 863 76 A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics) 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218327002m/226378.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226378.A_Hero_of_Our_Time 2 1 false Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Wed Jan 07 10:58:04 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 11:00:00 -0800 2009 Spring Torrents, as I didn't like it nearly as much as Turgenev's book.

One thing that jumped out at me right away and then throughout the book was no...more...]]> 226378 014044176X 9780140441765 863 76 A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics) 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218327002m/226378.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226378.A_Hero_of_Our_Time 5 1 false Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 10:25:57 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 14:12:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 226378 014044176X 9780140441765 863 76 A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics) 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218327002m/226378.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226378.A_Hero_of_Our_Time 5 1 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Feb 11 02:44:10 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 10:12:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5986287 0143105639 9780143105633 5 3 A Hero of Our Time 4.07 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5986287.A_Hero_of_Our_Time 4 0 false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 15:35:10 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 14:01:07 -0700 2009 It's best described as an interesting precursor to Dostoevsky/Chekhov/...more...]]> 226378 014044176X 9780140441765 863 76 A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics) 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218327002m/226378.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226378.A_Hero_of_Our_Time 0 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 09:41:52 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 09:42:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 226378 014044176X 9780140441765 863 76 A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics) 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218327002m/226378.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226378.A_Hero_of_Our_Time 4 0 false Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 13:14:20 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 13:17:05 -0700 2009 writing, though, was somewhat simple and straightfoward, thou...more...]]> 226378 014044176X 9780140441765 863 76 A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics) 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218327002m/226378.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226378.A_Hero_of_Our_Time 5 0 false Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 06:42:13 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 06:45:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 760869 0679413278 9780679413271 56 8 A Hero of Our Time (Everyman's Library) 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178128522m/760869.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/760869.A_Hero_of_Our_Time 5 1 false Tue Jul 17 16:25:45 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 16:16:06 -0700 2007 750487 0140447954 9780140447958 100 8 A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics) 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178027612m/750487.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/750487.A_Hero_of_Our_Time 3 0 false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 08:42:10 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 15:28:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 226378 014044176X 9780140441765 863 76 A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics) 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218327002m/226378.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226378.A_Hero_of_Our_Time 4 0 false Wed Dec 03 19:57:56 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 19:57:56 -0800 2008 Notes from Underground: the Underground Man, crippled by self-analysis, and the Man of Action, impulsive and confident. The soldier Pechorin has no reservations about stealing native women...more...]]> 226378 014044176X 9780140441765 863 76 A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics) 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218327002m/226378.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226378.A_Hero_of_Our_Time 3 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 08:11:29 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 12:41:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 226378 014044176X 9780140441765 863 76 A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics) 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218327002m/226378.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226378.A_Hero_of_Our_Time 5 0 false Mon Jun 09 07:35:07 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 08:21:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 226378 014044176X 9780140441765 863 76 A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics) 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218327002m/226378.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226378.A_Hero_of_Our_Time 5 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 18 21:17:54 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 21:23:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 226378 014044176X 9780140441765 863 76 A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics) 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218327002m/226378.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226378.A_Hero_of_Our_Time 2 0 false Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 19:41:29 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 15:24:54 -0700 2009 3
I find the manipulative trait of Pechorin appalling but this is what you get when you grow up accustomed to the wealth and eventually -- inevitably -- boredom. He chooses to take advantage of anything and anyone whenever he pleases, to satisfy ...more...]]> 5894696 4 1 A Hero of Our Time 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1227543551m/5894696.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5894696.A_Hero_of_Our_Time 4 0 false Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 10:08:56 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 10:08:56 -0800 2008 AHOOT is brilliantly structured: multiple narrators giving voice to different aspects of Lermontov, decent stories told well, and dabs of philosophizing here and there. This edition itself is pretty spectacular: a no-frills translation by Messrs. Nabokov and a...more...]]> 760869 0679413278 9780679413271 56 8 A Hero of Our Time (Everyman's Library) 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178128522m/760869.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/760869.A_Hero_of_Our_Time 5 0 false Thu Jul 12 17:43:45 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 19:13:45 -0700 2007
Begins as one man's "travel notes," ends with another man's diary.

It centers on one sociopath, Pechorin. The first encounter with him is through the story of a former acquaintance who seems to admire him. But I think Pechorin'...more...]]> 282366 1857150783 9781857150780 39 5 Hero of Our Time 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173395740m/282366.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282366.Hero_of_Our_Time 5 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Jan 17 06:48:11 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 06:54:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5986287 0143105639 9780143105633 5 3 A Hero of Our Time 4.07 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5986287.A_Hero_of_Our_Time 4 0 false Fri May 08 06:53:42 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 06:54:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=750487