Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 352, Editura: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Autor: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Simon Karlinsky, Fredson Bowers, ISBN-13: 9780156027762,...
Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957,...
'Look at the harlequins ... Play! Invent the world! Invent reality'. This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England,...
Smurov, a fussily self-conscious Russian tutor, shoots himself after a humiliating beating by his mistress' husband. Unsure whether his suicide has been successful or not, Smurov drifts...
Albinus - rich, married middle-aged and respectable - is an art critic and aspiring filmmaker who lusts after the coquettish young cinema usherette Margot. Gradually he seduces her...
Written in Berlin in 1934, "Invitation to a Beheading" contains all the surprise, excitement and magical intensity of a work created in two brief weeks of sustained inspiration. It...
The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote...
'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee...
Includes sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy that display a range of inventiveness, with fairy tales, intellectual games and glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss...
Dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled...
Features a collection of Nabokov's poems span the decades of his career, from 'Music', written in 1914, to the short, playful 'To Vera', composed in 1974. this title also includes verse...
Berlin, Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts: Nachdem er vor der russischen Revolution und dem Bürgerkrieg geflohen ist, lebt der russische Offizier Ganin in der russischen Emigranten-Kolonie...
Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with a man he believes...
Vladimir Nabokov: Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951 (LOA #87)...
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Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since. His strange tales, though...
The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with...
No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. From their meeting in 1921, Vladimir's letters to his beloved Vera form a narrative arc that tells...
Curso sobre el Quijote / Lectures On Don Quixote...
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Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman ('his slapdash and very misleading book'), the narrator, V, sets...
Traces the bleak life of Hugh Person through murder, madness, prison and trips to Switzerland. This novel sinks into the transparent things of the world that surround this one Person,...
A romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross...
The classic novel from the author of Lolita, brilliantly portraying one man's ruin through love and betrayal...
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