# A Hero of Our Time

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- Book: [A Hero of Our Time](https://www.bookquiver.com/mikhail-lermontov/a-hero-of-our-time) ([A Hero of Our Time.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mikhail-lermontov/a-hero-of-our-time.md))
- Authors: [Mikhail Lérmontov](https://www.bookquiver.com/mikhail-lermontov)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4310-563-3
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2009-08-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later nineteenth-century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov. Lermontov's hero, Pechorin, is a dangerous man, Byronic in his wasted gifts and his cynicism, and desperate for any kind of action that will stave off boredom. In five linked episodes, Lermontov builds up a portrait of a man caught in and expressing the sickness of his times.