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    The Gift

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    Author Vladimir Nabokov
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    Knopf | Vintage
    On sale May 07, 1991 | 384 Pages | 9780679727255
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    The Gift is the last novel Nabokov wrote in his native language. It is his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write--a book similar to The Gift itself.
    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 America, 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. View titles by Vladimir Nabokov
    “[Nabokov is] the supreme master.”
    —The New York Times Book Review

    “Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.”
    —John Updike

    “[Nabokov] is in a class by himself.”
    —The Atlantic

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    The Gift is the last novel Nabokov wrote in his native language. It is his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write--a book similar to The Gift itself.

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    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 America, 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. View titles by Vladimir Nabokov

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    “[Nabokov is] the supreme master.”
    —The New York Times Book Review

    “Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.”
    —John Updike

    “[Nabokov] is in a class by himself.”
    —The Atlantic

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