The Tragedy of Mister Morn
by Nabokov, Vladimir
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- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0307960811
- ISBN 13
- 9780307960818
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Synopsis
Vladimir Nabokov studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin. In 1940, he left France for the United States, where he wrote some of his greatest works–– Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962)––and translated his earlier Russian novels into English. He taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977. Thomas Karshan is the author of Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Play and editor of Nabokov’s Selected Poems . Previously a research fellow at Christ Church, Oxford, and Queen Mary, University of London, he is now a lecturer in literature at the University of East Anglia. Anastasia Tolstoy is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oxford, where she is writing a thesis on Nabokov. She is the great-great-great-granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy.
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- Bookseller
- Russell Books Ltd (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FORT557921
- Title
- The Tragedy of Mister Morn
- Author
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 6
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 0307960811
- ISBN 13
- 9780307960818
- Publisher
- Alfred a Knopf Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2013-03-19