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Pnin: Vladimir Nabokov (Penguin Modern Classics)

Pnin: Vladimir Nabokov (Penguin Modern Classics)

by VladimirNabokov (Author)

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 07 Dec 2000
ISBN 10: 0141183756
ISBN 13: 9780141183756

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
Author Bio
Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 in St Petersburg. He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most famously, Lolita. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian emigre writers. He died in 1977.