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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Pnin (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)by: Vladimir Nabokov  List Price: $17.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.56 You Save: $5.44 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781400041985 ISBN: 1400041988 Label: Everyman's Library Manufacturer: Everyman's Library Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: April 06, 2004 Publisher: Everyman's Library Release Date: April 06, 2004 Studio: Everyman's Library Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunder-standings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator. Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader’s deepest protective instinct. Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, Pnin brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Brilliant on many levelsI thoroughly enjoyed this book on many levels. It does not have the showy complexity of Pale Fire, or the heavy weight impact of Lolita (my two favorites of the Nabokov oeuvre) but it is still a laudable companion to these other two masterpieces. Many have already commented on the delightful and heart-rending personality of Professor Pnin, and I found this part of the story to be extremely endearing. The bumbling but ever good-natured academic is a memorable character on par with Prof. Charles Kinbote. ... Read More Rating: - Very FineNabokov's brilliant and evocative prose style once again comes through in this elegant novel about a bewildered professor of Russian who is not dissimilar from the author. This novel is a fine combination of farcical humor and introspective reflection; it is both cool and finely polished as well as experimental. Although Nabokov occasionally falls into the pitfalls of the academic/farce genre, he is generally able to keep the book alive with curious uses of the narrator as character, as well as various ... Read More Rating: - A Perfect Small NovelNabokov achieves perfect balance as he tells the story of Timofey Pnin, a bumbling Russian émigré and permanent associate professor. Here, Professor Pnin is oddly lovable and out-of-place in America. But he is also easy prey--exploited cruelly by his ex-wife and mocked mercilessly by his colleagues, who make Pnin impressions and stories a staple at campus cocktail parties. With this balance, PNIN, the novel, is both sweetly engaging and cruel. At moments, the Nab seems like he's torturing a puppy. Here's ... Read More Rating: - Short But A Great Read - But Not Like Nabokov's Other NovelsNabokov is famous both for his non-fiction analysis of literature and for his fictional works, especially on topics such as obsession and compulsive behaviour. The book is less intense that Lolita or Laughter in the Dark. I started to read all of his works and eventually made my way to Pnin. I had not read any comments or reviews on the book prior to reading the story. This is a compelling read. It is well written; and, in many ways it is a powerful novel. I found it hard to put down ... Read More Rating: - A Russian In AmericaThis book is truly a masterful work by Nabokov. In a brief summary, the book is like Kafka with a great sense of humor. Yet Kafka never really has a sense of humor, so it is unique to Nabokov. The story depicts a Russian immigrant to the US. He never really integrates the manner and pronunciation of English in the American manner. Much of his commentary is funny. Many of the events that besiege him are hilarious. Often one can do nothing but outright laugh at Nabakov's description and depiction. ... Read More 
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