April 2009
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Mikhail Lermontov: "Princess Mary"
Lermontov’s seventy-page short-story, “Princess Mary,” is one of the brutally honest accounts of human nature and the pursuit of love - the games and manipulations that a man will enact to make a woman love him, just for his own amusement. The story’s protagonist, Pechorin, a dashing, calculating, heartless __ of the Russian Army, knows all too well the truth behind the...