Authors:Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov,
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: laura, original
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-11-17
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0307271897
ISBN-13: 9780307271891
Book Description When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But Nabokov’s wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband’s last work, and when she died, the fate of the manuscript fell to her son. Dmitri Nabokov, now seventy-five--the Russian novelist’s only surviving heir, and translator of many of his books--has wrestled for three decades with the decision of whether to honor his father’s wish or preserve for pos
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: nabokov, vladimir, stories
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 1996-12-09
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0679729976
ISBN-13: 9780679729976
From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time--display all the shades of Nabokov’s imagination. They range from sprightly fables to bittersweet tales of loss, from claustrophobic exercises in horror to a connoisseur’s samplings of the table of human folly. Read as a whole, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov offers and intoxicating draft of the master̵
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: lolita
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1989-03-13
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0679723161
ISBN-13: 9780679723165
The hilarious and tragic story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged Russian man who feels passion only for young the "nymphet" Dolores Haze, whom he renames Lolita.
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: gift
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1991-05-07
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0679727256
ISBN-13: 9780679727255
The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write--a book very much like The Gift itself.
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: pnin
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1989-06-18
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0679723412
ISBN-13: 9780679723417
Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John UpdikePnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is a tireless lover who writes to his treacherous Liza: "A genius needs to keep so much in store, and thus cannot offer you the whole of himself as I do." Pnin is the focal point of subtle academic conspiracies he cannot begin to comprehend, yet he stages a faculty party to end all faculty parties forever.One of the twentieth century’s master prose stylists, V
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: despair
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1989-05-14
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0679723439
ISBN-13: 9780679723431
Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder.
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: opinions, strong
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1990-03-17
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0679726098
ISBN-13: 9780679726098
In this collection of interviews, articles, and editorials, Nabakov ranges over his life, art, education and politics amoung other subjects.
