Bend Sinister

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 The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. Zusammenfassung The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime.

Product details

• Authors: Vladimir Nabokov
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2001
• EAN: 9780141185767
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118576-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Dystopian, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary