A Hero of Our Time
$24.64
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
28 January 2025
Summary
‘I remain in unchanged admiration for this bold, headstrong, carefree undertaking, a first novel published when the author was twenty-five, which proved to be the first prose masterpiece in Russian’ - Julian Barnes from his preface.
Published in Russian in April 1840, A Hero of Our Time reached English in 1853, under the title ‘Sketches of Life in the Caucasus, by a Russe.’ Full of towering landscapes and local colour, it can be read as the travelogue of a poet and serving of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529431216 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529431212 |
| Author: | Julian Barnes, Mikhail Lermontov, Vladimir Nabokov |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 28 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 150g |
| Dimensions: | 128mm x 196mm x 20mm |
| Series: | riverrun editions |
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About The Author
Julian Barnes
Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter.
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was an expatriate Russian and Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.
Julian Barnes is the author of several books of stories, essays, a translation of Alphonse Daudet’s In the Land of Pain, and numerous novels, including the 2011 Man Booker Prize winning novel The Sense of an Ending.
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