A Hero of Our Time

A Hero of Our Time Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • Mikhail Lermontov. A Hero of Our Time. London: Penguin Books, 2001.
  • Barratt, Andrew, and A. D. P. Briggs. "Conclusion to A Wicked Irony: The Rhetoric of Lermontov's." Conclusion to A Wicked Irony: The Rhetoric of Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1989. 123-135. Rpt. in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Lynn M. Zott. Vol. 126. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Literature Resource Center. Web. 8 May 2015.

  • "George Gordon Noel Byron." Encyclopedia of World Biography. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Biography in Context. Web. 10 May 2015.

  • Gilroy, Marie. "Understanding Irony." The Ironic Vision in Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time. Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 1989. 1-12. Rpt. in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Lynn M. Zott. Vol. 126. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Literature Resource Center. Web. 8 May 2015.

  • Goldfarb, David A. "Lermontov and the Omniscience of Narrators." Philosophy and Literature 20.1 (Apr. 1996): 61-73. Rpt. in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Lynn M. Zott. Vol. 126. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Literature Resource Center. Web. 5 May 2015.

  • Hitchens, Christopher. "A doomed young man: no, he was not Byron. But he certainly tried." The Atlantic June 2005: 115+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 5 May 2015.

  • Matual, David. "Women and Horses in Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time." The International Fiction Review 22.1 (1995): 8-14. Rpt. in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Lynn M. Zott. Vol. 126. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Literature Resource Center. Web. 8 May 2015.

  • Reid, Robert. "Mikhail Lermontov: Overview." Reference Guide to World Literature. Ed. Lesley Henderson. 2nd ed. New York: St. James Press, 1995. Literature Resource Center. Web. 2 May 2015.

  • Fleming, James. "Byronic Hero: Definition, Characteristics, & Examples." 8 May 2015. <http://study.com/academy/lesson/byronic-hero-definition-characteristics-examples.html>.