Summary: In this episode of Penguin Classics On Air, Elda Rotor introduces Penguin Classics editor John Siciliano and his interview with Natasha Randall, translator of Lermontov's A HERO OF OUR TIME, about the invention of Russian roulette, the beauty of the Caucasus, the misery of a Russian soldier, and the inherent danger of dueling. Alan Walker, head of academic marketing, introduces listeners to FIRST LOVE by Ivan Turgenev on "Reading the Classics from A to Z." And Stephen Morrison, associate publisher and editor in chief of Penguin Books, offers up the opening to Lermontov's A HERO OF OUR TIME in his segment, "First Pages."
