{"product_id":"hero-of-our-time","title":"Hero Of Our Time","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulian Barnes from his preface.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished in Russian in April 1840, \u003ci\u003eA Hero of Our Time\u003c\/i\u003e reached English in 1853, under the title ''\u003ci\u003eSketches of Life in the Caucasus, by a Russe.'' \u003c\/i\u003eFull 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVladimir Nabokov''s translation of\u003ci\u003e A Hero of Our Time\u003c\/i\u003e was published in the United States in 1958, the same year as\u003ci\u003e Lolita: \u003c\/i\u003eworld fame was about to overtake this committed Russian living in America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57395156615550,"sku":"NW9781529431216","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781529431216.jpg?v=1778629639","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/hero-of-our-time","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}