Pnin

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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)

  theasylum published on Fri, 10 Sep 2010

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  I found this for a good price at a used bookstore, and it became my first Nabokov novel (well, I'd tried Lolita years earlier, but couldn't get through it). Absolutely LOVED Pnin! Tragic, comic, insightful, and written in that oh-so-savory Nabokov style.

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  THE comic masterpiece. And then, so many chance meetings make you think of Pnin, the fantastic Pnin!

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  ilariainthelibrary said on Jan 25, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  It's important to say that the style of writing it's absolute enchanting. Nabokov is, as always, ironic and cynic with all of his character but he is also full of tenderness for Pnin, who immediately became "our" Pnin

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  Mandorlamara (devo smettere di aggiungere libri alla lista desideri) said on Sep 12, 2007 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 208 Pages
• Edition: Reissue
• ISBN-10: 0679723412
• ISBN-13: 9780679723417
• Publisher: Vintage
• Pub date: Jun 18, 1989
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Livros em Português, Libri Italiani, Polskie Książki

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