A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov [FIRST U.S. PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1958 • Anchor

A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov translated by Vladimir Nabokov

FIRST U.S. PAPERBACK PRINTING [1958] ANCHOR BOOKS / DOUBLEDAY

Vintage paperback in good reading condition with some *Underlined and Bracketed passages throughout; however most pages are clean and unmarked.

Cover shows shelf wear; spot of sticker residue over price on cover.  Otherwise a clean, tight copy with bright, minimally tanned pages.   Shop stamp on underside of cover.

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 and passion of Russian literature that it helped, in great measure, to make possible.