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    Ready Reference Treatise: A Hero of Our Time
    Ready Reference Treatise: A Hero of Our Time
    Ready Reference Treatise: A Hero of Our Time
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    Ready Reference Treatise: A Hero of Our Time

    By Raja Sharma

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    Although it is a complete novel, it is divided into five short stories or novella. There is a preface written by the author in the second edition of the novel.

    The novel has three major narrators. The first narrator is an unnamed young officer in the Russian army. He happens to be travelling through the Caucasus Mountains. During his journey he documents his travel detains to be published later.

    At the opening of the novel, the young unnamed narrator meets Captain Maxim Maximych who happens to be quite older and has been staying in the Caucasus for a long time. He has his interactions with the local Ossetian tribesmen, so he is able to show the narrator the life style of the Russian soldiers in that region.

    Ready Reference Treatise: A Hero of Our Time
    Copyright
    Chapter One: Introduction
    Chapter Two: Plot Overview
    Chapter Three: Characters
    Chapter Four: Complete Summary
    Preface
    Bela
    Maxim Maximych
    Foreword
    Taman
    Princess Mary
    The Fatalist
    Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateMay 25, 2015
    ISBN9781310998287
    Ready Reference Treatise: A Hero of Our Time
    Author

    Raja Sharma

    Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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      Ready Reference Treatise: A Hero of Our Time

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      Ready Reference Treatise: A Hero of Our Time

      Raja Sharma

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      Chapter One: Introduction

      A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov was written in 1839. The novel was revised in 1841.

      The novel has a compelling Byronic hero. It is a perfect example of the superfluous man novel. Pechorin is the Byronic hero of the novel. The book is also known for the beautiful descriptions of the Caucasus.

      The novel has been translated into English by several translators. The most popular translations are done by Vladimir Nabokov and Dmitri Nabokov.

      Although it is a complete novel, it is divided into five short stories or novella. There is a preface written by the author in the second edition of the novel.

      The novel has three major narrators. The first narrator is an unnamed young officer in the Russian army. He happens to be travelling through the Caucasus Mountains.

      During his journey he documents his travel detains to be published later.

      At the opening of the novel, the young unnamed narrator meets Captain Maxim Maximych who happens to be quite older and has been staying in the Caucasus for a long time.

      He has his interactions with the local Ossetian tribesmen, so he is able to show the narrator the life style of the Russian soldiers in that region.

      The second narrator is Maxim Maximych. His narration is mostly based on the experiences of his travelling companion Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin, the central character of the story, who becomes the ultimate Byronic hero.

      Maxim Maximych happens to have spent some time with Pechorin in the Caucasus. The period of time spent with him is not specified.

      Eventually, Maxim Maximych gives the diaries written by Pechorin to the anonymous narrator. It transpires that Pechorin had left those diaries when he was discharged from his post. Since then the Captain had been carrying those diaries with him.

      Pechorin is the third narrator of the story, but he is not like the other two narrators. He does not happen to be an immediate character in the story.

      He narrates with the help of his diaries which had already been published along with the unnamed narrator’s travel descriptions after Pechorin’s death.

      Princess Mary is the longest novella in the book. In this novella, Pechorin flirts with the Princess Mary of the title.

      During that period he happens to be having an

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