Book description
Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously
perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with American
life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world: the
ruination of his beautiful lumber-room-as-office; the removal of his
teeth and the fitting of new ones; the search for a suitable boarding
house; and the trials of taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture
in a language he has yet to master.
Part of a major new series of the works of Vladimir Nabokov, author
of Lolita and Pale Fire, in Penguin Classics.
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was born in St Petersburg. He wrote his
first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as
a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most
famously,
Lolita
. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems
and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one
of the most outstanding Russian migr writers.
