Böcker av Mikhail Lermontov

In A Hero of Our Time, the first great Russian novel, a young officer, passionate and world-weary, is posted to the Caucasus and becomes involved in a series of adventures. A dazzlingly original work of fiction, the novel is newly translated together with Pushkin's travel narrative, A Journey to Arzrum, with introduction and notes.

'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.

The beautiful Circassian princess Bela is kidnapped by a man named Azamat, who trades her for a horse. She is taken to the home of Pechorin, a man who treats women as an incentive for endless conquests.

In its adventurous happenings-its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues-A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and '30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorin-the archetypal Russian antihero-Lermontov's novel looks forward to the subsequent glories of a Russian literature that it helped, in great measure, to make possible.This edition includes a Translator's Foreword by Vladimir Nabokov, who translated the novel in collaboration with his son, Dmitri Nabokov.

Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов (1814-1841) - гордость русской литературы, русский поэт, прозаик, драматург - родился в Москве, в семье отставного офицера. Он учился в Московском университете (1830-1832). Окончил Санкт-Петербургскую школу гвардейских подпрапорщиков и кавалерийских юнкеров (1834).Слава пришла к Михаилу со стихотворением «Смерть поэта', которое было посвящено Пушкину.За короткие 13 лет творческой биографии поэт внес неоценимый вклад в русскую литературу как автор исключительной по разнообразию тем и мотивов лирики; его творчество завершило развитие национальной романтической поэмы, создало фундамент для реалистического романа XІX в.

This is a dual-language book with the Russian text on the left side, and the English text on the right side of each spread. The texts are precisely synchronized. A great book for learning both languages while reading a Russian classic masterpiece. Translated by J. H. Wisdom & Marr Murray, verified and corrected by Alexander Vassiliev.

Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, this edition includes Princess Ligovskaya

First published in 1919, this book presents the text of Lermontov's 1840 poem 'The Novice' in the original Russian. An editorial introduction and detailed textual notes in English are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Russian poetry and the works of Lermontov.