For the first time in English; Vladimir Nabokovrsquo;s earliest major work; written when he was only twenty-four: his only full-length play; introduced by Thomas Karshan and beautifully translated by Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy. The Tragedy of Mister Morn was written in the winter of 1923shy;shy;ndash;1924; when Nabokov was completely unknown. The five-act playmdash;the story of an incognito king whose love for the wife of a banished revolutionary brings on the chaos the king has fought to preventmdash;was never published in Nabokovrsquo;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 writerrsquo;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. The play is Nabokovrsquo;s major response to the Russian Revolution; which he had lived through; but it approaches the events of 1917 above all through the prism of Shakespearean tragedy.
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