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This happened because Penguin failed to check the blurb with me. They
have rejacketed all the books so that the blurb is
now correct but the incorrect version seems to be still on their and
amazon's website. I've asked them again to correct this.
Dr Thomas Karshan
Lecturer in Literature
University of East Anglia
Room: Arts 2.32
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Why is the Amazon UK marketing copy trumpeting this as his only play?
Am I missing something?
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[EDNote: I couldn't confirm the claim above right away, but it seems to
be true (see below). Maybe the word "verse" was accidentally dropped
before the word "play"?]
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tragedy-Mister-Penguin-Translated-ebook/dp/product-description/B008243ZFI/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=341677031&s=digital-text
Review
The variety, force and richness of Nabokov's perceptions have not even
the palest rival in modern fiction. To read him in full flight is to
experience stimulation that is at once intellectual, imaginative and
aesthetic, the nearest thing to pure sensual pleasure that prose can
offer (Martin Amis )
He did us all an honour by electing to use, and transform, our language
(Anthony Burgess )
The power of the imagination is not apt soon to find another champion
of such vigour (John Updike )
Product Description
Morn, a masked king, rules over a realm to which he has restored order
after a violent revolution. Secretly in love with Midia, the wife of a
banished revolutionary, Morn finds himself facing renewed bloodshed and
disaster when Midia's husband returns, provoking a duel and the return
of chaos that Morn has fought so hard to prevent.
The first major work and the only play of Vladimir Nabokov, author of
Lolita and Pnin, The Tragedy of Mister Morn is translated and published
in English here for the first time, and is a moving study of the
elusiveness of happiness, the power of imagination and the eternal
battle between truth and fantasy.
About the Author
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was born in St Petersburg. He wrote his
first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence
as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most
famously, Lolita. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short
stories, plays, poems and translations and established himself as one
of the most outstanding Russian émigré writers.