Book description
Morn, a masked king, rules over a realm to which he has restored
order after a violent revolution. Secretly in love with Midia, the
wife of a banished revolutionary, Morn finds himself facing renewed
bloodshed and disaster when Midia's husband returns, provoking a duel
and the return of chaos that Morn has fought so hard to prevent.
The first major work and the only play of Vladimir Nabokov, author
of Lolita and Pnin, The Tragedy of Mister Morn is
translated and published in English here for the first time, and is a
moving study of the elusiveness of happiness, the power of imagination
and the eternal battle between truth and fantasy.
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 and established himself as one of the most outstanding
Russian migr writers.
