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ISBN:	0679727248 (ISBN13: 9780679727248)
Edition Language:	English

Glory

Vladimir Nabokov

Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 3.7 | 2069 Users | 148 Reviews

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Title	:	Glory
Author	:	Vladimir Nabokov
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	November 5th 1991 by Vintage (first published 1931)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Classics. Literature. Russian Literature. Novels

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Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twenty-two-year-old Russian émigré of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him.  Convinced that his life is about to be wasted and hoping to impress his love, he embarks on a "perilous, daredevil project"--an illegal attempt to re-enter the Soviet Union, from which he and his mother had fled in 1919.  He succeeds--but at a terrible cost.

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Climaxes in a neat narrative magic trick that's both an ephemeral disappearing act and a harsh cold-shower come-down from the quixotic harmlessness of the first 200 pages. One of Nabokov's better Russian novels.



Glory is a tale of adventure and "coming of age" during pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg. We follow the life and development of Martin Edelweiss, a Swiss-Russian, from childhood to university graduate of Cambridge in England. As the years pass, Martin finds himself in situations, with increasing loftiness and grandiosity, where he feels the need to conquer in order to achieve, in his eyes, a sort of heroic status. Much akin to the perfect throw in footballwhatever that is.The crux of the problem

A Dream Comes TrueI read this because I had a dream that I read this. But the book I read in my dream was much smaller, palm-sized, like one of those toy New Testaments, those prizes for scripture-memorization that one can win on a rainy morning in Sunday school if one raises their hand soon enough, catches the teacher's eye.

Nicely observed novel centred on Russian emigres in Europe between the wars. Unusually for Nabokov much of the action takes place in England.Not as harsh in tone as earlier novels like Invitation to a Beheading or Laughter in the Dark, the tone is more similar to later works. Transitional also in that it was written in Russian, he had gone the way of Joseph Conrad and made English his own as a literary tool at this stage in his career.The central character, a somewhat annoying youth, has an

Glory is the comic/tragic tale of a young man whose fantasies of heroism come to replace reality and eventually lead to his downfall. The theme is simple, but because the novel is set between WWI and WWII, Glory might be best described as a somewhat cynical allegory about the plight of the "Lost Generation"--those ex-patriots who retreated to Paris during the 20s and 30s. Martin, our protagonist, while not an American in Paris, most certainly is lost. Having been forced into exile during the

Nabokov's prose is brilliant even here, so early in his bibliography. But he commits the rookie mistake of assuming that a personal experience that has been so significant in his life (his own exile from Russia) is interesting per se to readers. Glory offers very little apart from this experience, and this, along with the writing, is note really enough to carry the novel. The plot wafts from trifle to trifle, but never really latches onto anything of importance. The ancillary characters are