$39.27
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2004
Summary
One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, PNIN features his funniest and most heartrending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian emigre precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunderstandings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857152722 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857152727 |
| Author: | Vladimir Nabokov, David Lodge |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2004 |
| Weight: | 298g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 132mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.” – John Updike
Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.” – John Updike * John Updike *
About The Author
Vladimir Nabokov
One of the twentieth century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) was born in St Petersburg, but left Russia when the Bolsheviks seized power. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977. His first novel in English was The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, published in 1941. His other books include Ada or Ardor (1969), Laughter in the Dark (1933), Pale Fire (1962), the short story collection Details of a Sunset (1976) and Lolita (1955), his best-known novel.
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