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A hero of our time penguin classics book also available for read online, mobi, docx and mobile and kindle reading. Mikhail lermontov was born in 1814 and made several journies to the. Guided by lermontovs frank narration, the reader follows pechorin through a series of dramatic adventures, in which gamblers, smugglers, circassian guerrillas. All the characters, with the possible exception of vera, are drawn with consummate art. The project gutenberg ebook of a hero of our time, by m. Why todays feminists would hate lermontovs a hero of. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. You may copy it, give it away or reuse it under the terms of the project gutenberg license included with this ebook or online at.
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