The Gift (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) [Import] [Paperback]

Vladimir Nabokov (Author), Michael Scammell (Translator)

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• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New Ed edition (February 27, 1992)
• ISBN-10: 0140184171
• ISBN-13: 978-0140184174
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
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• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #859,206 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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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