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Also by Vladimir Nabokov:

The Original Of Laura, November 2009
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Lolita, March 1999
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Speak. Memory, September 1989
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Invitation to a Beheading, September 1989
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Pnin, June 1989
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Pale Fire, April 1989
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Pnin
Vladimir Nabokov

"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John Updike

Vintage
June 1989
208 pages
ISBN: 0679723412
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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.

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