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Book Description
Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is a tireless lover who writes to his treacherous Liza: "A genius needs to keep so much in store, and thus cannot offer you the whole of himself as I do." Pnin isContinue
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- English Books
- Paperback 191 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 0385191162
- ISBN-13: 9780385191166
- Publisher: Anchor
- Pub date: Mar 13, 1984
- Also available as: Hardcover and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin
Many writers have one book which is much better known than anything else they have written, and which overshadows all their other work. Often, to me – say, with Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller or Evelyn Waugh – it’s the wrong book which is best known. N ... (read full critics)