num_pages: 168
description: 'In general Glory is my happiest thing.' 'The fun of Glory is... to be sought in the echoing and linking of minor events, in back-and-forth switches, which produce an illusion of impetus; in an old daydream directly becoming the blessing of the ball hugged to one's chest, or in the casual vision of Martin's mother grieving beyond the time-frame of the novel in an abstraction of the future that the reader can only guess at, even after he has raced through the last seven chapters where a regular madness of structural twists and a masquerade of all characters culminate in a furious finale, although nothing much happens at the very end - just a bird perching on a wicket in the greyness of a wet day' - Vladimir Nabokov
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: Penguin Classics