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    Bend Sinister

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    Author Vladimir Nabokov
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    Knopf | Vintage
    On sale Apr 14, 1990 | 272 Pages | 9780679727279
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    The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel in his oeuvre, Bend Sinister is filled with veiled puns and delightful wordplay. It is first and foremost a compelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a police state.
    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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    The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel in his oeuvre, Bend Sinister is filled with veiled puns and delightful wordplay. It is first and foremost a compelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a police state.

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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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