![]() ![]() ![]() In the introduction, the translator Paul Foote writes, I was utterly absorbed in the story of Pechorin, a Byronic anti-hero described from three points of view: that of a narrator/writer who takes travel notes, that of an officer who tells spellbinding stories that reveal Pechorin’s character, and finally from Pechorin’s own journal. (We have three copies: two were recently found in a box.) The last giveaway of the year is of a lovely Penguin edition of Mikhail Lermontov’s charming short novel, A Hero of Our Time (1840). And for every book that comes into the house, one must go out. My resolution is to get all books out of boxes on to shelves. ![]() I freed up one bookcase this year by weeding books, and hope to free up another in the new year.
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