The Gift
$33.67
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
24 May 2017
Summary
The Gift: A Tapestry of Words and Wings
Nabokov’s final Russian novel, The Gift, unveils the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer immersed in the secluded sphere of Russian intellectuals in post-World War I Berlin. This exquisite tapestry, woven with literature and butterflies, chronicles Fyodor’s journey as a writer. Yet, the true heroine is not Fyodor’s enigmatic and cherished Zina, but the very essence of Russian prose and poetry.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141185873 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141185872 |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Author: | Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 24 May 2017 |
| Weight: | 303g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 22mm |
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About The Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even ‘God’s own novelist’ (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.
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