Nabokov, Vladimir

The Tragedy of Mr. Morn

New York: Knopf, 2012. Trans. Anastasia Tolstoy and Thomas Karshan; introd. Thomas Karshan. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, pp xxix, 147. Small ink remainder mark bottom edge of text block, otherwise fine condition in like dustjacket.

First English language publication of Nabokov's earliest major work, his only full-length play, written when he was twenty-four. Written in verse, the play "is Nabokov's major response to the Russan Revolution, which he had lived through, but it approaches the events of 1917 above all through the prism of Shakespearean tragedy." (Dustjacket.). Item #106039

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