{"product_id":"9781529431216","title":"A Hero of Our Time","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Barnes, Julian \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 24\/10\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 208 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781529431216,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I remain in unchanged admiration for this bold, headstrong, carefree undertaking, a first novel published when the author was twenty-five, which proved to be the first prose masterpiece in Russian' Julian Barnes from his preface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in Russian in April 1840, A Hero of Our Time reached English in 1853, under the title 'Sketches of Life in the Caucasus, by a Russe.' Full of towering landscapes and local colour, it can be read as the travelogue of a poet and serving officer, but also as a portrait of the romantic as self-destructive anti-hero.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVladimir Nabokov's translation of A Hero of Our Time was published in the United States in 1958, the same year as Lolita: world fame was about to overtake this committed Russian living in America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54878277304693,"sku":"9781529431216","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781529431216_a2bf4b94-4f69-4596-b705-a15836f8b21b.jpg?v=1759658915","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781529431216","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}