{"product_id":"a-hero-of-our-time-riverrun-editions","title":"A Hero of Our Time (riverrun editions)","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 Nabokovs 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":"riverrun","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45872758423750,"sku":"DADAX1529431212","price":8.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/9389\/1014\/files\/71W9RTAFMXL.jpg?v=1779524531","url":"https:\/\/ergodemedia.com\/products\/a-hero-of-our-time-riverrun-editions","provider":"Ergodemedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}