The Gift

Informationen zum Autor Vladimir Nabokov Klappentext Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics. Zusammenfassung An autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. It tells the story of Fyodor's pursuits as a writer.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell
• Mitarbeit: Dmitri Nabokov (Übersetzung), Michael Scammell (Übersetzung), Scammell Michael (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Penguin Books Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 05.04.2001
• EAN: 9780141185873
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118587-3
• Seiten: 416
• Abmessung: 130 mm x 195 mm x 17 mm
• Serien: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, Classic fiction: general and literary