{"product_id":"9781529431216","title":"A Hero of Our Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eI 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.   Published 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.   Vladimir 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":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54819606954360,"sku":"9781529431216","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781529431216.jpg?v=1732209555","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781529431216","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}