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 | A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics) (Updated Edition) by Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov, Paul Foote (Translator), Irwin Paul Foote Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2001 ISBN-10: 0-14-044795-4 / 0140447954 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044795-8 / 9780140447958 The first example of the psychological novel in Russia, A Hero of Our Time influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov, and other great nineteenth-century masters that followed. Its hero, Pechorin, is Byronic in his wasted gifts, his cynicism, and his desire for any kind of action-good or ill- | |