“Let me allude, before the spell is broken, / to Pushkin”

November 29, 2012 | 1 book mentioned

Listen to Pnin author Vladimir Nabokov read “An Evening of Russian Poetry” in the style—nay, as “an impersonation, in iambic pentameter, with fancy rhymes”—of that book’s titular professor.

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