Pnin by Nabokov, Vladimir - 2004

E-190: Everyman's Library. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, NY. 1957. 191 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (chipping present to the edges of the DJ extremities). Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Small tear present to the corner of one page. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is a tireless lover who writes to his treacherous Liza: "A genius needs to keep so much in store, and thus cannot offer you the whole of himself as I do." Pnin is the focal point of subtle academic conspiracies he cannot begin to comprehend, yet he stages a faculty party to end all faculty parties forever. E-190; 0.7 x 8 x 4.8 Inches; 176 pages .