Pnin
$21.24
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
6 December 2000
Summary
Hilarious, intelligent and moving, Pnin is the tale of a generation irrevocably severed from its past.
Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart of campus America. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world: the ruination of his beautiful lumber-room-as-office; the removal of his teeth and the fitting of new ones; the search for a suitable boarding-house; and the trials of taking the wrong train.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141183756 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141183756 |
| Author: | Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Wood |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 6 December 2000 |
| Weight: | 128g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
“Hilariously funny and of a sadness.” -Graham Greene
”“Pnin”’s vita, though its essence is saintliness, is yet a work of brilliant magic and fabulous laughter.” -“The New Republic “
“Fun and satire are just the beginning of the rewards of this novel. Generous, bewildered Pnin, that most kindly and impractical of men, wins our affection and respect.” -“Chicago Tribune
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“Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way the masters can-to laughter that is near to tears.” -“The Guardian”
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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