The Vampyre John Polidori

Mikhail Lermontov’s only novel, A Hero of Our Time, chronicles the adventures of a young officer, Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin, through second and third-person narrative as well as through his own traveler’s journal. Like many other Russian...

The summer of 1816 in Geneva was a rather sublime and therefore inspirational season. The weather was so harsh and unpredictable that it ushered a group of remarkably talented people around the hearth instead of roaming the dangerous Alps. Being...