Splendor

fiction by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Blurb

Glory is a Russian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov between 1930 and 1932 and first published in Paris.
The novel has been seen by some critics as a kind of fictional dress-run-through of the author's famous memoir Speak, Memory. Its Swiss-Russian hero, Martin Edelweiss, shares a number of experiences and sensations with his creator: goal-tending at Cambridge University, Cambridge fireplaces, English morning weather, a passion for rail travel. It is, however, the story of an émigré family's escape from Russia, a young man's education in England, and his disastrous return to the nation of his birth—the "feat" of the novel's Russian title.

First Published

1932

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