Pnin

Readers meet one of Nabokov's funniest and most heartrending characters: Timofey Pnin, a professor of Russian at an American college, who lectures in a language he cannot master.

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/18/1989
Pages: 191
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 7.88h x 5.42w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9780679723417
ISBN10: 0679723412
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Satire

About the Author
One of the twentieth century's master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.