{"product_id":"the-tragedy-of-mr-morn-9780307950666","title":"The Tragedy of Mr. Morn","description":"\u003cb\u003eVladimir Nabokov's earliest major work, written when he was twenty-four, is a full-length play in verse of Shakespearean beauty and richness.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe story of an incognito king whose love for the wife of a banished revolutionary brings on the chaos the king has fought to prevent, this five-act play was never published in Nabokov's lifetime and lay in manuscript until it appeared in a Russian literary journal in 1997. It is an astonishingly precocious work, in exquisite verse, touching for the first time on what would become this great writer's major themes: intense sexual desire and jealousy, the elusiveness of happiness, the power of the imagination, and the eternal battle between truth and fantasy. \u003ci\u003eThe Tragedy of Mister Morn\u003c\/i\u003e is Nabokov's major response to the Russian Revolution, which he had lived through, but it approaches the events of 1917 through the prism of Shakespearean tragedy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslated by Anastasia Tolstoy and Thomas Karshan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage International\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307950666\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Vladimir Nabokov","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52959421923509,"sku":"9780307950666","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-tragedy-of-mr-morn-9780307950666","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}