Pnin - Penguin Modern Classics
Pnin - Penguin Modern Classics
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Published:
7 December, 2000
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Description
Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. 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 to deliver a lecture in a language he has yet to master.
Wry, intelligent and moving, Pnin reveals the absurd and affecting story of one man in exile.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780141183756 |
| ISBN10 | 0141183756 |
| Number Of Pages | 176 |
| Item Weight | 134 g |
| Product Dimensions | 128 x 196 x 10 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
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
Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way the masters can-to laughter that is near to tears. - The Guardian
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Author's Bio
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.