Making headway with the next set of draft pages for the revised and updated bibliography: Подвиг [Podvig / Glory] was Nabokov’s fifth novel in Russian. He wrote it in 1930 and the book was published in book form towards the end of 1932 by Sovremennye Zapiski. Excerpts had previously appeared eight times in various émigré newspapers in 1931 and 1932 and in its entirety in the literary journal Современные записки [Sovremennye zapiski / Contemporary annals] in 1931. The English translation, Glory, was the last of his novels that Nabokov translated. He said that the Russian title, “Podvig”, translates literally as “gallant feat” or “high deed”. But for the English language version, he preferred the evocative “Glory”. It was published by McGraw-Hill in 1971. It is A13 in the 1986 bibliography.
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There also seems to be an additional variant of the book club issue (A13.2) with no blind stamping on the back cover.
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