Morn, a masked king, rules over a realm to which he has restored order after a violent
revolution. Secretly in love with Midia, the wife of a banished revolutionary, Morn finds
himself facing renewed bloodshed and disaster when Midia's husband returns, provoking a duel
and the return of chaos that Morn has fought so hard to prevent.
The first major work and the only play 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.
