Pnin (1957), the fourth English-language novel by Vladimir Nabokov, is dedicated to the life vicissitudes of one of the most defenseless and touching characters in twentieth-century literature. Russian Russian intellectual, an excellent scientist, but an eccentric and unlucky man, Timofey Pnin, who left Russia after the revolution of 1917, teaches Russian literature at an American university, where he becomes an accidental victim of intrigues and callousness of colleagues. Will he be able to escape this time from his cunning creator, who has prepared for him the fate of a sufferer, forced to endure the blows of fate over and over again?"Pnin was released shortly after the scandalous Lolita and, having received rave reviews from readers and critics, served as a kind of antithesis to the prevailing idea of "immorality" and "soullessness"Nabokov. This edition of the novel is accompanied by a preface, notes, and a concluding essay by the translator. The translator's spelling, punctuation, and transliteration features have been preserved.