Book summaryPNIN was the last novel Nabokov wrote in America, in 1957 when he was teaching at Cornell. It is the story of a drab, gentle, lovable failure: Timofey Pnin, an émigré Russian teacher at a mediocre upstate New York college who fails to get tenure and ultimately loses his job. Pnin's history amusingly resembles what Nabokov's might have been had he been less brilliant and ambitious. The novel was originally serialized in The New Yorker in 1953 and 1955 and was Nabokov's most successful book to date. Media reviews"What startling beauty of phrase, twists of thought, depths of sorrow, and bursts of wit! This [is] a rainbow prose that [makes] most others look flat and gray." |
PNINby Nabokov, VladimirFirst edition thus
Book desription: New York: Everyman's Library, 2004. First edition thus The uncorrected proof in green wrappers of one of his great novel, originally in 1957. This edition with a 16 pp. introduction by David Lodge. Covers lightly creased with several small (coffee?) stains. Only a small number produced.
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