{"product_id":"9781529431216","title":"A Hero of Our Time","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Barnes, Julian \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eClassic fiction (pre c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 24 October 2024 by Quercus Publishing (riverrun) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the riverrun editions' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 208 pages\u003cbr\u003e129 x 198 x 17 | 152g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46865219846403,"sku":"9781529431216","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781529431216.jpg?v=1748253345","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.pro\/products\/9781529431216","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}