Author: Mikhail Lermontov

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• Steve Berry (1)
  • IN: The Romanov Prophecy (2004) Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A year shall come of Russia's blackest dread; Then will the crown fall from the royal head, The throne of tsars will perish in the mud, The food of many will be death and blood.
    FROM: NULL, (1830), NULL, NULL
• Albert Camus (1)
  • IN: The Fall (1956) Philosopical Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Some were dreadfully insulted, and quite seriously, to have held up as a model such an immoral character as A Hero of Our Time; others shrewdly noticed that the author had portrayed himself and his acquaintances…A Hero of Our Time, gentlemen, is in fact a portrait, but not of an individual; it is the aggregate of the vices of our whole generation in their fullest expression
    FROM: foreword to A Hero of our Time, (1841), Novel, Russia