THIS novel, known as one of the masterpieces of
    Russian Literature, under the title "A Hero
    of our Time," and already translated into at least
    nine European languages, is now for the first time
    placed before the general English Reader.
    The work is of exceptional interest to the
    student of English Literature, written as it was
    under the profound influence of Byron and being
    itself a study of the Byronic type of character.