A Hero of Our Time

• A new translation of the first great Russian novel, which brings the story of Romantic adventure and journeying to a new pitch of intensity and reflection.
• The only edition to include Pushkin's great travel narrative, The Journey to Arzrum, describing his miliary experiences in the Caucasus and which gives important context to Lermontov's later work.
• Idiomatic and accurate translation, sensitive to Lermontov's use of specific ethnographic vocabulary.
• Comprehensive introduction that considers the novel's relation to orientalism and the ethnographic and anthropological discourses of the day, as well as its qualities as a novel.
• Informative and extensively researched notes gloss a wide range of historical, literary, and geographical references.

Readership: Readers of classic fiction, Russian literature, literature in translation, students of Russian literature, the Russian novel, European Romanticism, comparative literature, Orientalism, nineteenth-century Russian history.

Mikhail Lermontov

Nicolas Pasternak Slater has translated several works by Boris Pasternak, most recently The Family Correspondence, 1921-1960 (Hoover Press, 2010).

Andrew Kahn has written widely on Russian literature. His books include The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin (2006) and Pushkin's Lyric Intelligence (OUP, 2008, pbk 2012). For Oxford World's Classics he has edited Pushkin's The Queen of Spades and Other Stories and Montesquieu's Persian Letters.