A Hero of Our Time
Written by Mikhail Lermontov
Narrated by Nicholas Boulton
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About this audiobook
Grigori Aleksandrovich Pechorin is an enigma: arrogant, cocky, melancholic, brave, cynic, romantic, loner, socialite, soldier, free soul, and yet, victim of the world, he eludes definition and remains a mystery to those who know him. Just who is he? And what does he hope to achieve? Evolving from first person to third person, and then into a diary, A Hero of Our Time takes on a variety of forms to interrogate Pechorin’s cryptic character and his unusual philosophy, providing breathtaking descriptions of the Caucasus along the way. The novel has been hailed as an influence on such writers as Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov, and is a striking take on Lord Byron’s ‘superfluous man’; it harks back to the teaching of Machiavelli, while anticipating the future work of Nietzsche.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent narrator of a great classic. Difficult to stop my iPhone listening and enjoying a philosophical tale. I highly recommended.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5And splendid idea of a question that we all asked what does it mean to live.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The book itself is amazing but this edition has moments where you can hear nothing for 10 or more seconds
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/55 short episodes which together give us a picture of our hero, a most unusual man