TY - BOOK AU - Nabokov, Vladimir AU - Author (tr) AU - Scammell, Michael (tr) TI - The Gift T2 - Penguin Twentieth - Century Classics SN - 9780140184174 U1 - 891.734 2 PY - 1981/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - Fiction - Russian N2 - This is a phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Gorbunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after World War I. The story is of a writer's pursuit, a tapestry of literature and lepidoptera, Russian prose and poetry ER -