• ISBN13: 9780679723417
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Vintage Books USA
• Publisher Imprint: Vintage Books USA
• Publication Date: June 18, 1989
• Pages: 191
• Original Price: USD 17.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 222 grams

<p><b>From the Inside Flap</b><br>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.</p>