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A Hero of Our Time

by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

First published
1840
Pages
195
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  1. 01 Book 1 Bela Chapter 1

    14:47

  2. 02 Book 1 Chapter 2

    3:26

  3. 03 Book 1 Chapter 3

    16:21

  4. 04 Book 1 Chapter 4

    8:38

  5. 05 Book 1 Chapter 5

    8:17

  6. 06 Book 1 Chapter 6

    5:13

  7. 07 Book 1 Chapter 7

    13:15

  8. 08 Book 1 Chapter 8

    11:15

  9. 09 Book 1 Chapter 9

    5:38

  10. 10 Book 1 Chapter 10

    5:11

  11. 11 Book 1 Chapter 11

    10:43

  12. 12 Book 2 Maksim Maksimych

    24:40

  13. 13 Foreword to Books 3, 4 and 5

    3:41

  14. 14 Book 3 The first extract from Pechorin's diary

    31:13

  15. 15 Book 4 The second extract from Pechorin's diary

    27:49

  16. 16 Book 5 The third extract from Pechorin's diary Chapter 1

    21:37

  17. 17 Book 5 Chapter 2

    16:06

  18. 18 Book 5 Chapter 3

    24:23

  19. 19 Book 5 Chapter 4-5

    11:22

  20. 20 Book 5 Chapter 6-7

    10:58

  21. 21 Book 5 Chapter 8-9

    17:48

  22. 22 Book 5 Chapter 10-11

    10:54

  23. 23 Book 5 Chapter 12-15

    20:39

  24. 24 Book 5 Chapter 16-18

    21:12

  25. 25 Book 5 Chapter 19

    12:45

  26. 26 Book 5 Chapter 20

    9:14

  27. 27 Book 5 Chapter 21

    12:29

  28. 28 Book 5 Chapter 22

    7:37

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Pechorin is a young officer posted to the Caucasus: bored, brilliant, and dangerous to everyone near him. Lermontov assembles the portrait out of five loosely linked episodes told from shifting vantage points, so the reader meets him first through an old soldier's gossip, then through a traveler's eyes, and only later through his own journals, where the cruelty and the self-knowledge sit side by side. He seduces, duels, and gambles less for pleasure than to feel anything at all. Published in 1840, a year before Lermontov died in a duel of his own, the novel gave Russian literature its first genuine psychological hero and set the pattern for the superfluous man his successors would inherit. Free PDF and EPUB edition available here.

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Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) was a Russian poet and army officer exiled to the Caucasus for a poem blaming court society for Pushkin's death. He finished A Hero of Our Time in his mid-twenties and was shot dead in a duel at twenty-six.

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First published
1840
Reading time
About 4 hours
Pages
195
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Kevin W. Davidson