The Gift

Copyright

Copyright © 1963 by Article 3C Trust

Under the Will of Vladimir Nabokov

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American

Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. This translation originally published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons in 1963. This edition published by arrangement with the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov.

Portions of this book first appeared in English in The New Yorker. © 1963 by The New Yorker Magazine, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899–1977.

[Dar. English]

The gift: a novel/by Vladimir Nabokov; translated from the Russian by Michael Scammell with the collaboration of the author.–

1st Vintage international ed.

p. cm.–(Vintage international)

eISBN: 978-0-307-78777-4

I. Title.

PG3476.N3D313 1991

891.73’42-dc20 90-50624

Cover art by Rodrigo Corral

Cover photograph by Alison Gootee

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