• Pnin (Russian pronunciation: [pnʲin]) is Vladimir Nabokov's 13th novel and his fourth written in English; it was published in 1957. The success of Pnin...
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  • political writer Pyotr Pnin [ru] (1803-1837), Russian painter Timofey Pnin, protagonist of the novel Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov Emir Pnin, a role played by Hilmi...
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    Petrovich Pnin (Russian: Иван Петрович Пнин; 1773–1805) was a Russian poet and political writer. In accordance with a Russian Illegitimacy custom, Pnin's surname...
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    to Ashland, Oregon. There he finished Lolita and began writing the novel Pnin. He roamed the nearby mountains looking for butterflies, and wrote a poem...
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    album Blackberry Belle (2003) by The Twilight Singers. In Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin (1957), the title character asks for Martin Eden in an American bookstore...
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  • Bend Sinister (1955) Lolita (self-translated into Russian (1965)) (1957) Pnin (1962) Pale Fire (1969) Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1972) Transparent...
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    modern novelists. He recited to me from Lolita, and from Speak, Memory and Pnin. I was spellbound." Every time Ebert saw Nack, he'd ask him to recite the...
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    Rockwell's brilliant technique was put to "banal" use, and wrote in his novel Pnin: "That Dalí is really Norman Rockwell's twin brother kidnaped by gypsies...
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  • of parent's. Other truncated surnames include: Yelagin to Agin, Repnin to Pnin, Golitsyn to Litsyn or deLitsyn [ru], Vorontsov to Rantsov, Rumyantsev to...
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  • connection to 1947 is intentional, Drescher notes that in Nabokov's novel Pnin (1957), Pnin complains that a librarian has changed volume 19 to volume 18 and...
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