Glory

Informationen zum Autor Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 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 émigré writers. He died in 1977. Zusammenfassung The wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss! a 22 year-old Russian emigre of no account! who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him. Hoping to impress his love! he embarks upon a 'perilous! daredevil project' - an illegal attempt to re-enter the Soviet Union."

Product details

• Authors: Vladimir Nabokov, Nabokov Vladimir
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2012
• EAN: 9780141196947
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119694-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: The Penguin Vladimir Nabokov Hardback Collection
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945