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Pnin

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An edition of Pnin (1957)

Pnin

1st Vintage international ed.

by and

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  • 67 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 13 Have read

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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Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
191

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Fiction Russian Americans in fiction College teachers in fiction Russian Americans Immigrants College teachers Immigrants in fiction Russian language books Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author) College stories American literature Refugees Russian American fiction

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1989, Vintage Books
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1989-06, Vintage International
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1965-01-01, Atheneum
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Series
Vintage international
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3527.A15 P59 1989

The Physical Object

Pagination
191 p. ;
Number of pages
191

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL2061012M
ISBN 10
0679723412
LCCN
88040527
OCLC/WorldCat
18985566
LibraryThing
5392
Goodreads
395042

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL627082W

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Work Description

Life and character of a middle-aged emigre Russian professor in a small American college.

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