The Tragedy of Mr. Morn by Nabokov, Vladimir
The Tragedy of Mr. Morn by Nabokov, Vladimir

The Tragedy of Mr. Morn

Vladimir Nabokov's earliest major work, written when he was twenty-four, is a full-length play in verse of...
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Author: Vladimir Nabokov
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The Tragedy of Mr. Morn by Nabokov, Vladimir

The Tragedy of Mr. Morn

BD$26.33
The Tragedy of Mr. Morn by Nabokov, Vladimir

The Tragedy of Mr. Morn

BD$26.33
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Vladimir Nabokov's earliest major work, written when he was twenty-four, is a full-length play in verse of Shakespearean beauty and richness.

The story of an incognito king whose love for the wife of a banished revolutionary brings on the chaos the king has fought to prevent, this five-act play was never published in Nabokov's lifetime and lay in manuscript until it appeared in a Russian literary journal in 1997. It is an astonishingly precocious work, in exquisite verse, touching for the first time on what would become this great writer's major themes: intense sexual desire and jealousy, the elusiveness of happiness, the power of the imagination, and the eternal battle between truth and fantasy. The Tragedy of Mister Morn is Nabokov's major response to the Russian Revolution, which he had lived through, but it approaches the events of 1917 through the prism of Shakespearean tragedy.

Translated by Anastasia Tolstoy and Thomas Karshan

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Vintage International
Published: 12/03/2013
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780307950666

About the Author

Vladimir Nabokov studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin. In 1940, he left France for the United States, where he wrote some of his greatest works--Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962)--and translated his earlier Russian novels into English. He taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977.

Thomas Karshan is the author of Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Play and editor of Nabokov's Selected Poems. Previously a research fellow at Christ Church, Oxford, and Queen Mary, University of London, he is now a lecturer in literature at the University of East Anglia.

Anastasia Tolstoy is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oxford, where she is writing a thesis on Nabokov. She is the great-great-great-granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy.


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