The Tragedy of Mister Morn by Vladimir Nabokov (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Tragedy of Mister Morn by Vladimir Nabokov, Anastasia Tolstoy, Thomas Karshan Morn, a masked king, rules over a realm to which he has restored order after a violent revolution. Secretly in love with Midia, the wife of a banished revolutionary, Morn finds himself facing renewed bloodshed and disaster when Midias husband returns, provoking a duel and the return of chaos that Morn has fought so hard to prevent. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Nabokovs only play, newly translated and published in English for the first timeMorn, a masked king, rules over a realm to which he has restored order after a violent revolution. Secretly in love with Midia, the wife of a banished revolutionary, Morn finds himself facing renewed bloodshed and disaster when Midias husband returns, provoking a duel and the return of chaos that Morn has fought so hard to prevent.Nabokovs first major work and his only play, The Tragedy of Mister Morn is translated and published in English here for the first time, and is a moving study of the elusiveness of happiness, the power of imagination and the eternal battle between truth and fantasy. Notes Nabokovs only play, newly translated and published in English for the first time. Author Biography Vladimir Nabokov (Author)Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even Gods own novelist (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.Anastasia Tolstoy (Translator)Anastasia Tolstoy, a junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, holds a doctorate from Oxford, where she completed a DPhil on Vladimir Nabokov and the Aesthetics of Disgust. She is the co-translator, with Thomas Karshan, of Nabokovs neo-Shakespearean blank verse drama The Tragedy of Mister Morn. Review The variety, force and richness of Nabokovs perceptions have not even the palest rival in modern fiction. To read him in full flight is to experience stimulation that is at once intellectual, imaginative and aesthetic, the nearest thing to pure sensual pleasure that prose can offer -- Martin AmisHe did us all an honour by electing to use, and transform, our language -- Anthony BurgessThe power of the imagination is not apt soon to find another champion of such vigour -- John Updike Review Text The variety, force and richness of Nabokovs perceptions have not even the palest rival in modern fiction. To read him in full flight is to experience stimulation that is at once intellectual, imaginative and aesthetic, the nearest thing to pure sensual pleasure that prose can offer Review Quote He did us all an honour by electing to use, and transform, our language Details ISBN0141196327 Author Thomas Karshan Year 2012 ISBN-10 0141196327 ISBN-13 9780141196329 Media Book Format Paperback Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Imprint Penguin Classics Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Birth 1899 Death 1977 Pages 176 Short Title TRAGEDY OF MISTER MORN VLADIMI Language English Residence St. Petersburg, RUR Translator Anastasia Tolstoy DEWEY 891.7242 Series Penguin Modern Classics Translated from Russian UK Release Date 2012-07-05 Publication Date 2012-07-05 Alternative 9780141967165 Audience General NZ Release Date 2012-09-18 AU Release Date 2012-09-18 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:145054190;

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