A Hero of Our Time

Originally published in Russian in 1840 Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time greatly influenced the later works of other great Russian authors such as Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. A Hero of Our Time is a pioneering work in the genre of the anti-hero novel. The novel's narrative is the story of Pechorin a young nihilistic officer in the army who's story is told in five non-chronological parts.