Nabokov's comic masterpiece charts the wry, bizarre progress of Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, now precariously perched on a college campus in the fast-beating heart of the USA. A man of complex emotions, Pnin does halting battle with American life and lanuage. But in this moving, amusing story of a seemingly born loser at odds with the New World, there is all the pathos of a generation cruelly and irrevocably severed from its past.
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Nabokov's comic masterpiece charts the wry, bizarre progress of Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, now precariously perched on a college campus in the fast-beating heart of the USA. A man of complex emotions, Pnin does halting battle with American life and lanuage. But in this moving, amusing story of a seemingly born loser at odds with the New World, there is all the pathos of a generation cruelly and irrevocably severed from its past.
Imprint | Penguin Classics |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Series | Penguin Modern Classics |
Release date | December 2000 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 9 - 15 working days |
First published | May 2010 |
Authors | Vladimir Nabokov |
Afterword by | Michael Wood |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - B-format |
Pages | 168 |
Edition | New Ed |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-14-118375-6 |
Barcode | 9780141183756 |
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LSN | 0-14-118375-6 |