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, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched on a college campus in the fast beating heart of the USA. In a series of funny and sad misunderstandings,...
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...
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...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 352, Editura: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Autor: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Simon Karlinsky, Fredson Bowers, ISBN-13: 9780156027762,...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Copertă tare, Număr pagini: 536, Editura: Everyman, Autor: Vladimir Nabokov, ISBN-13: 9781841594361, Data emiterii: 2025...
'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...
'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,...
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,...
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...
'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence,...
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...
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...
The classic novel from the author of Lolita, brilliantly portraying one man's ruin through love and betrayal...
Linking various minor events, this work switches back-and-forth producing an illusion of impetus...
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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...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 128, Editura: Penguin Books, Autor: Vladimir Nabokov, ISBN-13: 9780241747001, Data emiterii: 2025...
When "Lolita" was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century. This annotated edition,...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Copertă tare, Număr pagini: 256, Editura: Penguin Books, Autor: Vladimir Nabokov, ISBN-13: 9780241630884, Data emiterii: 2023...
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...
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...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 256, Editura: Orion Publishing Co, Autor: Vladimír Nabokov, ISBN-13: 9781474620871, Data emiterii: 2023...
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...
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...
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