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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Glory (Penguin Modern Classics)
by: Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovGlory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twenty-two-year-old Russian ??migr?? of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him. Convinced that his life is about to be wasted and hoping to impress his love, he decides to embark upon a ???perilous, daredevil project??? ??? an illegal attempt to reenter the Soviet Union, from which he and his mother had fled in 1919. He succeeds ??? but at a terrible cost. ???Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.??? ??? John Updike.
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Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twenty-two-year-old Russian ??migr?? of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him. Convinced that his life is about to be wasted and hoping to impress his love, he decides to embark upon a ???perilous, daredevil project??? ??? an illegal attempt to reenter the Soviet Union, from which he and his mother had fled in 1919. He succeeds ??? but at a terrible cost. ???Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.??? ??? John Updike.
ISBN: 9780141188515
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publish Date: July 27, 2006
Page Count: 192 pages
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