Morn, a masked king, rules over a realm to which he has restored order after a v
iolent revolution. Secretly in love with Midia, the wife of a banished revolutio
nary, Morn finds himself facing renewed bloodshed and disaster when Midia's husb
and returns, provoking a duel and the return of chaos that Morn has fought so ha
rd to prevent. The first major work of Vladimir Nabokov, author of "Lolita" and
"Pnin", "The Tragedy of Mister Morn" is translated and published in English here
for the first time, and is a moving study of the elusiveness of happiness, the
power of imagination and the eternal battle between truth and fantasy.