Glory (Penguin Modern Classics)

by: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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.

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was born on April 23, 1899, in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Nabokov household was trilingual, and as a young man, he studied Slavic and romance languages at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his honors degree in 1922. For the next eighteen years he lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin and supporting himself through translations, lessons in English and tennis, and by composing the first crossword puzzles in Russian. In 1925 he married Vera Slonim, with whom he had one child, a son, Dmitri. Having already fled Russia and Germany, Nabokov became a refugee once more in 1940, when he was forced to leave France for the United States. There he taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He also gave up writing in Russian and began composing ficticvbn ral books of criticism. Vladimir Nabokov died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977

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