Pnin (Russian: Пнин, IPA: [pnʲin]) is Vladimir Nabokov's 13th novel and his fourth written in English; it was published in 1957. The success of Pnin in...
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political writer Pyotr Pnin [ru] (1803–1837), Russian painter Timofey Pnin, protagonist of the novel Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov Emir Pnin, a role played by Hilmi...
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Bend Sinister (1955) Lolita (self-translated into Russian (1965)) (1957) Pnin (1962) Pale Fire (1969) Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1972) Transparent...
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Pale Fire (category 1962 American novels)
"Notes". In Vladimir Nabokov; Brian Boyd (eds.). Nabokov: Novels 1955–1962: Lolita / Pnin / Pale Fire. Library of America. ISBN 1-883011-19-1. Appel...
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went to Ashland, Oregon. There he finished Lolita and began writing the novel Pnin. He roamed the nearby mountains looking for butterflies, and wrote a poem...
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Martin Eden (category 1909 American novels)
album Blackberry Belle (2003) by The Twilight Singers. In Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin (1957), the title character asks for Martin Eden in an American bookstore...
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Institution by Randall Jarrell (1954) Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson (1956) Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (1957) Purely Academic by Stringfellow Barr (1958) A...
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Translation from Chapter One, Stanzas I-VIII Reply to My Critics A Novel and Three Excerpts Pnin complete From Despair From Invitation to a Beheading From The...
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Enter the Aardvark (category 2020 American novels)
compared the novel to Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin as well as political satires such as HBO's television show Veep and Christopher Buckley's novel Thank You For...
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connection to 1947 is intentional, Drescher notes that in Nabokov's novel Pnin (1957), Pnin complains that a librarian has changed volume 19 to volume 18 and...
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Look at the Harlequins! (category Novels by Vladimir Nabokov)
Fire Esmeralda and Her Parandrus (1941) Dr. Olga Repnin (1946) relates to Pnin Exile from Mayda (1947), a collection of short stories, relates to Pale Fire...
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Dmitri collaborated with his father on a translation of Mikhail Lermontov's novel, A Hero of Our Time. In 1961, Nabokov made his operatic début by winning...
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portrayed his father in his memoirs (Speak, Memory, 1967) and included in his novel Pale Fire a scene of misdirected assassination evoking the death of his...
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The Klingon Hamlet (category 2000 American novels)
said." The idea had also already been used by Vladimir Nabokov in his novel Pnin, the eponymous hero of which prefers the Russian translation he grew up...
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Enchanter English The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Bend Sinister Lolita Pnin Pale Fire Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle Transparent Things Look at the...
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was a favorite childhood pastime of the eponymous protagonist of the novel Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (p. 106, Vintage). The game can be played on the Wii...
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Confidence-Man by Herman Melville Lolita, Invitation to a Beheading and Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett...
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Elephant, short stories) Iris Murdoch – The Sandcastle Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin Björn Nyberg and L. Sprague de Camp – The Return of Conan Marcel Pagnol –...
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piece of poetic invention on Perrault's part. Nabokov has Professor Timofey Pnin assert as fact that "Cendrillon's shoes were not made of glass but of Russian...
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Rockwell's brilliant technique was put to "banal" use, and wrote in his novel Pnin: "That Dalí is really Norman Rockwell's twin brother kidnaped by gypsies...
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Jay Osborn, Jr. Professor Charles Kingsfield law Pnin Vladimir Nabokov Professor Timofey Pavlovich Pnin linguistics Professor Branestawm Series Norman Hunter...
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Foundation, there were multiple fiction categories: hardcover, paperback, first novel or first work of fiction; from 1981 to 1983 hardcover and paperback children's...
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Prabda Yoon (section Novels)
number of modern Western classics such as Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Pnin, all of J. D. Salinger's books, Anthony Burgess's' A Clockwork Orange, and...
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2015. Boyd, Brian (1996). Vladimir Nabokov (ed.). Nabokov: Novels 1955–1962: Lolita / Pnin / Pale Fire. Library of America. ISBN 1-883011-19-1. Appel...
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The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (category Novels set in Guernsey)
to again and again?) "Iris Murdoch’s “A Word Child”; Vladimir Nabokov's “Pnin”; Evan Connell's “Mrs. Bridge” and “Mr. Bridge”; G. B. Edwards's “The Book...
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modern novelists. He recited to me from Lolita, and from Speak, Memory and Pnin. I was spellbound." Every time Ebert saw Nack, he'd ask him to recite the...
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Natural Places of National Interest (Paratge Natural d'Interes Nacional or PNIN), the Pedraforca, the Poblet Forest and the Albères. After Franco's death...
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Enchanter English The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Bend Sinister Lolita Pnin Pale Fire Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle Transparent Things Look at the...
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(Basidiomycota, Agaricales) in the Pannonian sandy steppe: four fascinating novel species from Hungary". MycoKeys (100): 153–170. doi:10.3897/mycokeys.100...
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