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Pnin
Bulgakov
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Description for Pnin
hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 302.
Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader's deepest protective instinct. Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, PNIN brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity.
Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader's deepest protective instinct. Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, PNIN brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857152722
SKU
9781857152722
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About Bulgakov
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Pnin
Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.
John Updike
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