The Tragedy of Mister Morn

by Vladimir Nabokov

  Invitation to a Beheading • 978-0-307-78735-4

  King, Queen, Knave • 978-0-307-78764-4

  Laughter in the Dark • 978-0-307-78767-5

  Lolita • 978-0-307-74402-9

  Lolita: A Screenplay • 978-0-307-78760-6

  Look at the Harlequins! • 978-0-307-78778-1

  The Luzhin Defense • 978-0-307-78755-2

  Mary • 978-0-307-78729-3

  The Original of Laura • 978-0-307-27325-3

  Pale Fire • 978-0-307-78765-1

  Pnin • 978-0-307-78747-7

  The Real Life of Sebastian Knight • 978-0-307-78758-3

  Selected Poems • 978-0-307-95755-9

  Speak, Memory • 978-0-307-78773-6

  The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov • 978-0-307-78809-2

  Strong Opinions • 978-0-307-78807-8

  Transparent Things • 978-0-307-78732-3

  Vintage Nabokov • 978-0-307-78724-8

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  ALSO BY VLADIMIR NABOKOV

  NOVELS

  Mary

  King, Queen, Knave

  The Defense

  The Eye

  Glory

  Laughter in the Dark

  Despair

  Invitation to a Beheading

  The Gift

  The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

  Bend Sinister

  Lolita

  Pnin

  Pale Fire

  Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

  Transparent Things

  Look at the Harlequins

  SHORT FICTION

  Nabokov’s Dozen

  A Russian Beauty and Other Stories

  Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories

  Details of a Sunset and Other Stories

  The Enchanter

  The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

  DRAMA

  The Waltz Invention

  Lolita: A Screenplay

  The Man from the USSR and Other Plays

  AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND INTERVIEWS

  Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

  Strong Opinions

  BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM

  Nikolai Gogol

  Lectures on Literature

  Lectures on Russian Literature

  Lectures on Don Quixote

  TRANSLATIONS

  Three Russian Poets: Translations of Pushkin,

  Lermontov, and Tyutchev

  A Hero of Our Time (Mikhail Lermontov)

  The Song of Igor’s Campaign (Anon.)

  Eugene Onegin (Alexander Pushkin)

  LETTERS

  Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya

  The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940–1971

  Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940–1977

  POETRY

  Selected Poems

  Copyright

  THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

  PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

  Introduction copyright © 2012 by Thomas Karshan

  Translation copyright © 2012 by Thomas Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy

  Illustrations by Pablo Delcán

  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Russia as Tragediya Gospodina Morna by Azbuka, St. Petersburg, in 2008. Copyright © 2008 by The Estate of Vladimir Nabokov. This translation originally published in the United Kingdom by Penguin Classics, an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd., London, in 2012.

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  Originally serialized in Russian, in somewhat different form, in Zvezda (1997).

  Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899–1977.

  [Tragediia gospodina Morna. English]

  The tragedy of Mister Morn / by Vladimir Nabokov;

  with an introduction by Thomas Karshan; translation by Anastasia Tolstoy and Thomas Karshan.

  p. cm.

  “This is a Borzoi book.”

  eISBN: 978-0-307-96080-1

  I. Tolstoy, Anastasia. II. Karshan, Thomas. III. Title. IV Title: Tragedy of Mister Morn.

  PG3476.N3T8313 2013

  891.72′42—dc23 2012037121

  Jacket design by Pablo Delcán

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  Footnotes

  1

  Lines missing in the original Russian text, including “curtain” to mark the end of the scene.

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  2

  Lines missing in the original Russian text.

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  3

  “KING” changes back to “MORN” in the Russian (Azbuka) edition of the play.

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