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Pnin : novel

Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched on a college campus in the fast beating heart of the USA. In a series of funny and sad misunderstandings, Pnin does halting battle with American life and language.

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  • "Sammlung"
  • "Rasskazy"
  • "Рассказы"
  • "Pnin"@ru
  • "Pnin"
  • "Pnin"@it
  • "Бледное пламя"
  • "Blednoe plamja"

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  • ""A Russian-born professor struggles to cope with American idioms and idiosyncrasies at a university in upstate New York.""
  • "Life and character of a middle-aged emigre Russian professor in a small American college."
  • "Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched on a college campus in the fast beating heart of the USA. In a series of funny and sad misunderstandings, Pnin does halting battle with American life and language."@en
  • "Presents the 1957 novel in which a Russian-born professor struggles to cope with American idioms and idiosyncrasies at a university in upstate New York."
  • "Satirische notities over het leven in een kleine Amerikaanse universiteitsgemeenschap, waar de onpraktische, groteske, maar toch eigenlijk zo deerniswekkende professor Pnin, Russisch emigrant, niets van begrijpt."
  • "Satirische notities over het leven in een klein Amerikaanse universiteitsgemeenschap, waar de onpraktische, groteske, maar toch eigenlijk zo deerniswekkende professor Pnin, Russisch emigrant, niets van begrijpt."
  • "Novel on the life and character of a middle-aged emigre Russian professor in a small American college."
  • "Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is a tireless lover who writes to his treacherous Liza: "A genius needs to keep so much in store, and thus cannot offer you the whole of himself as I do." Pnin is the focal point of subtle academic conspiracies he cannot begin to comprehend, yet he stages a faculty party to end all faculty parties forever."@en
  • "Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is a tireless lover who writes to his treacherous Liza: "A genius needs to keep so much in store, and thus cannot offer you the whole of himself as I do." Pnin is the focal point of subtle academic conspiracies he cannot begin to comprehend, yet he stages a faculty party to end all faculty parties forever."
  • "A Russian-born professor struggles to cope with American idioms and idiosyncrasies at a university in upstate New York."

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  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Portraits"
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "College stories"
  • "College stories"@en
  • "Translations"
  • "Translations"@he
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Bookplates (Provenance)"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Dust jackets (Binding)"
  • "Verhalend proza"
  • "Powieść rosyjska"@pl
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Poezja rosyjska"
  • "Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)"
  • "Tekstuitgave"

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  • "Pnin. [Novel. Repr.]"
  • "Пнин"
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  • "Pnin : romanzo"@it
  • "プニン"
  • "Pnin Roman"
  • "Pinīn"
  • "<&gt"@ru
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Пнин ; Рассказы ; Бледное пламя"
  • "Pnin : [romanzo]"
  • "Pnin; Razzkazy; Blednoe plamja"@it
  • "פנין"
  • "Pnin : novel"@en
  • "Pnin : [roman]"
  • "Pnine : roman"
  • "Pnin : a novel"
  • "Pnin : a novel"@en
  • "Pnine"
  • "Pnin : [a novel]"
  • "Punin"@ja
  • "Punin"
  • "Pnin : complete and unabridged"
  • "Pnin : Heinemann"@en
  • "Pnin; Novela"@es
  • "Pnin : roman"
  • "Pnin̄"
  • "Pnin ; Rasskazy ; Blednoe plamja"
  • "Pnin"@ca
  • "Pnin"@tr
  • "Pnin"@pt
  • "Pnin"@pl
  • "Pnin"@sv
  • "Pnin"@es
  • "Pnin"@en
  • "Pnin"
  • "Pnin"@it
  • "Pnin"@fi
  • "Pnin. [A novel.]"@en
  • "Pnin : Roman"
  • "Nīn"
  • "Penin"

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