num_pages: 205
description: 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 decides to embark upon a “perilous, daredevil project” — an illegal attempt to reenter the Soviet Union, from which he and his mother had fled in 1919. He succeeds — but at a terrible cost.“Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.” — John Updike
language: English
title: Glory: A novel
titlecomplete: Glory: A novel
genres: Fiction, Russian Literature, 20th Century, Classics, Modern Classics, Read For School, Russia, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 2729
publisher: Mc-Graw Hill