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...
'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...
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane?...
Lev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian emigres. Alone in his room, he dreams of his first love, Mary. Awash with memories of youth and...
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...
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...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Copertă tare, Număr pagini: 256, Editura: Penguin Books, Autor: Vladimir Nabokov, ISBN-13: 9780241630884, Data emiterii: 2023...
A novella in which a middle-aged man weds an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her daughter...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 192, Editura: Penguin Books, Autor: Vladimír Nabokov, ISBN-13: 9780141185606, Data emiterii: 2001...
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...
Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart of campus America. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Copertă tare, Număr pagini: 280, Editura: Everyman's Library, Autor: Vladimír Nabokov, ISBN-13: 9781857150674, Data emiterii: 1992...
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...
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...
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...
'Such a beautiful and mysterious book' Zadie SmithNabokov's 999-line poem written by the reclusive genius John Shade...
An autobiographical volume which recounts the story of Nabokov's first forty years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War Two. Written in this writer's...
Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous...
Curso sobre el Quijote / Lectures On Don Quixote...
Detalii
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 128, Editura: Penguin Books, Autor: Vladimir Nabokov, ISBN-13: 9780241747001, Data emiterii: 2025...
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,...
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,...
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