num_pages: 205
description: Glory, the author's fifth novel, was first published in Russian with the title Podvig. Until now American and English bibliographers have referred to it at The Exploit. It has been translated by the author's son in collaboration with the author, and was the last of his nine Russian novels to receive such treatment. This edition includes a foreword by the author, written 8 December 1970 in Montreux.Glory is the story of an émigré family's escape from Russia, a young man's education in England, and his return to the nation of his birth (the "feat" or "exploit" of the title), and is seen by some as a semi-autobiographical test-run for the writing of the better known autobiography, 
  Drugie Berega
, later translated into English as 
  Speak Memory
.
language: English
title: Glory
titlecomplete: Glory
genres: Russia, Literature, Fiction, Russian Literature, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics, 20th Century, Novels, Read For School, Classics
ratings_count: 2729
publisher: McGraw-Hill