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Item Details
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GLORY
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| By: |
Vladimir Nabokov |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£20.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0141196947 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780141196947 |
| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2012 |
| Series: |
The Penguin Vladimir Nabokov Hardback Collection |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Translated from: |
Russian |
| Description: |
The wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a 22 year-old Russian emigre of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him. Hoping to impress his love, he embarks upon a 'perilous, daredevil project' - an illegal attempt to re-enter the Soviet Union." |
| Synopsis: |
'In general Glory is my happiest thing.' 'The fun of Glory is . . . to be sought in the echoing and linking of minor events, in back-and-forth switches, which produce an illusion of impetus; in an old daydream directly becoming the blessing of the ball hugged to one's chest, or in the casual vision of Martin's mother grieving beyond the time-frame of the novel in an abstraction of the future that the reader can only guess at, even after he has raced through the last seven chapters where a regular madness of structural twists and a masquerade of all characters culminate in a furious finale, although nothing much happens at the very end - just a bird perching on a wicket in the greyness of a wet day' - Vladimir Nabokov |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Penguin Classics |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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