A Hero of Our Time
Lermontov, Mikhail / Nabokov, Vladimir / Binyon, T. J. / Nabokov, Dmitri![A Hero of Our Time](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/188/1882194/CHSBZCOP031882194.jpg)
Set in the Caucasus, the scene of Russia's military campaigns in the 19th century, this is both an adventure story and a sardonic look at the heroic ideals of the author's contemporaries - which makes it all the more ironic that the main character, Pushkin, (like the author) was killed in a duel.