Glory is a Russian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov between 1930 and 1932.
The text was translated by the author's son, Dmitri Nabokov, and published in English in 1971. The Russian title, Podvig, also translates as "feat" or "exploit." Its working title was Romanticheskiy vek (romantic times) as Nabokov indicates in his foreword and continues to characterize Martin as...
Glory
Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков, pronounced [vlɐdʲiˈmʲɪr nɐboˈkəf]) (22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899, Saint Petersburg – 2 July 1977, Montreux) was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose...