Description
| Product ID: | 9780141185873 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Title: | The Gift |
| Authors: | Author: Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell |
| Page Count: | 416 |
| Subjects: | Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, Fiction in translation |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. It tells the story of Fyodor's pursuits as a writer. The Gift is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. This gorgeous tapestry of literature and butterflies tells the story of Fyodor''s pursuits as a writer. Its heroine is not Fyodor''s elusive and beloved Zina, however, but Russian prose and poetry themselves. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2001-04-05 |
