Glory

Informationen zum Autor 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 onwards, 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. 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 Linking various minor events, this work switches back-and-forth producing an illusion of impetus.

Product details

• Authors: Dmitri Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov
• Assisted by: Dmitri Nabokov (Translation), Nabokov Dmitri (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.07.2006
• EAN: 9780141188515
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118851-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Berlin, Cambridge, Switzerland, FICTION / Literary, Narrative theme: Interior life