Read By: Alexander Scourby

The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native language
and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career.
It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin,
Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: the story of Fyodor
Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished emigre poet living in Berlin, who
dreams of the book he will someday write . a book very much like The
Gift itself.

one of the twentieth century.s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov
was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature
at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where
he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940
he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet,
critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford,
Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where
he died in 1977.

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