ISBN: 9781857152722
Дата выхода: январь 2004

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 is the focal point of subtle academic conspiracies he cannot begin to comprehend, yet he stages a faculty party to end all faculty parties forever.

ISBN: 978-0-679-72341-7
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: февраль 2012

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pnin is Vladimir Nabokov`s 13th novel and his fourth written in English; it was published in 1957.

ISBN: 978-5-5119-9131-3

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pnin is the 13th novel, and the fourth written in English, by Vladimir Nabokov; it was published in 1957. The book follows a Russian-born professor named Timofey Pavlovich Pnin living in the United States. Pnin, a refugee in his 50s from both Communist Russia and what he called the "Hitler war", came to the United States in 1940 and is an assistant professor of Russian at fictional Waindell College, probably modeled on Wellesley and Cornell, where Nabokov had taught. At Waindell he has settled down to an uncertain, untenured academic life full of various tragicomic mishaps, misfortunes, and difficulties adjusting to American life and language. Characters in the book include his departmental...

ISBN: 978-6-1319-8754-0
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011