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De Rerum Natura - Lucretius (Rouse prose translation, Loeb Classics)
The War of the End of the World - Vargas Llosa
A Hero of Our Time - Lermontov
Best of the month - The Joke - clever structure, crystalline prose, a bit of everything. Kundera makes it seem effortless.
Worst - no ... ... of:
1. The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
2t. Barchester Towers by Trollope
2t. Humboldt's Gift by Bellow
4. A Hero of Our Time by Lermontov
5. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by A. Brönte
Honorable Mention: All the Pretty Horses, The Invention of Morel, Post Office, Step ... ... (although he manages to displace much more suffering onto the unfortunates who cross his path), I recommend the 1838 novel A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, because:
- it's short - less than 200 pages (as I recall)
- it consists of five linked novellas
- it's not at all ... ... out some. I took a whole crate to Half Price Books and got a whopping $14. Of course, I turned right around and bought: A Hero of Our Time, Fingersmith, and Vernon God Little. Now I have to figure out what to do with them as all my new shelves are completely full! ... as much as any other novel of it's day; a great improvement over Anne's conventional first story Agnes Grey.
3. A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
One adventure story too many detracts from a nicely realized ending to this brilliant little Russian novella (a byproduct of its ... A Hero of Our Time ****½
by Makhail Lermontov
05/29/08
Germinal ****
by Emile Zola
05/31/08
Disgrace ***
by J.M. Coetzee
05/31/08 Finished Nabokov's fantastic translation of Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time. ... Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion Sunday. Currently reading/listening to: Humboldt's Gift, The Time Machine, A Hero of Our Time, Disgrace, Winesburg, Ohio and Letters from a Stoic by Seneca. ... Stories from American Postcards by Robert Olen Butler
Two o'clock, eastern wartime : a novel by John Dunning
Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
The Clocks by Agatha Christie
... {1/8}
1. Austria - The Confusions of Young Törless *****
2. Russia - {2/5}
~ a. War and Peace ***½
~ b. A Hero of Our Time ****½
3. Sweden - Doctor Glas ***½
4. Netherlands - The Following Story ***½
5. Argentina - The Invention of Morel ****
6. Turkey - Snow * ... ... Mikhail Lermontov, which is contained in Lermontov's novel (really a collection of linked short stories and novellas) A Hero of Our Time. My favourite Russian novel would be a three-way tie between A Hero of Our Time, The Master and Margarita and Fathers and Sons. If I was forced to choose one book, I think it would be the Lermontov by a short head, but over his career, probably Lev Tolstoy as a novelist. In short fiction, ... Somewhere Lermontov is laughing, his Герой нашего времени, Hero of Our Time, Pechorin looks downright saintly compared to Putin. Бог не спас.
But, still, JK Rowling?? Are there any grown ups left in America?
Oh, yes, McCain and Petreaus. Thanks for the reminder Ser ... BGP, if you haven't read Turgenev, then I doubt you've read Lermontov - but suddenly I have an image of Putin as The Hero of Our Time and it makes me chuckle, I mean, weep.
Put Lermontov on the list, if he's not there already. The someday list. Thanks.
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