A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov Paperback Book 9780143105633

A masterpiece of Russian prose Lermontovs only novel was influential for many later nineteenthcentury authors including Tolstoy Dostoyevsky and Chekhov It features Pechorin who is a dangerous man Byronic in his wasted gifts and his cynicism and desperate for any kind of action that will stave off boredom