Description: Title: Pnin Author: Nabokov, Vladimir Publisher: Everyman's Library Binding: Hardcover Pages: 143 Dimensions: 8.32h x 5.26w x 0.65d Product Weight: 0.65 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781400041985 One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, Pnin brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity. "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 Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunder-standings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator. Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader's deepest protective instinct. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Book Title: Pnin : Introduction by David Lodge
Number of Pages: 184 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.7 in
Topic: Classics, Satire, Literary, Humorous / General
Publication Year: 2004
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 10.6 Oz
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Item Length: 8.3 in
Book Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Hardcover
