
A Hero of Our Time
Author: Mikhail Lermontov
Narrator: Nicholas Boulton
Unabridged: 6 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 11/10/2017

Author: Mikhail Lermontov
Narrator: Nicholas Boulton
Unabridged: 6 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 11/10/2017
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (1814–1841), sometimes called “the poet of the Caucasus,†was the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin’s death. His influence on later Russian literature is still felt in modern times, not only through his poetry, but also by his prose. His poetry remains popular in Chechnya, Dagestan, and beyond Russia.
There is something in A Hero of Our Time that even time is powerless to destroy. The novel is full of everlasting feelings and motives that ruled human beings in ancient times and keep ruling now. I was so delighted to be so high above the world: it was a childlike feeling, I won’t deny it, but withd......more
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Whenever I see a Penguin Classics book at one of our local second hand book sales, I become hypertensive, I salivate and elbow past the old and infirm, scream like a banshee and trample over little kids, stray dogs and wheelchairs. Yes, this heroic effort of mine (let’s not deny it), this time, resu......more