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Nabokov's Dozen
Author | : Vladimir Nabokov |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2017-09-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0241302498 |
In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, mangled by it, with nowhere to escape to. Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lurk in all the corners. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they can be snatched, waylay their victims. Like the shimmer of the sea, the gleam of a glass caught by the sun, they sparkle brilliantly only to dissolve again. Two of the stories, 'First Love' and 'Mademoiselle O', are autobiographical, and 'The Assistant Producer' is based on real events, but the rest are pure flights of fantasy - or the stuff that life is weaved of?
Selected Letters, 1940–1977
Author | : Vladimir Nabokov |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 627 |
Release | : 2012-09-06 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0544106555 |
“Wonderful, compulsively readable, delicious” personal correspondences, spanning decades in the life and literary career of the author of Lolita (The Washington Post Book World). An icon of twentieth-century literature, Vladimir Nabokov was a novelist, poet, and playwright, whose personal life was a fascinating story in itself. This collection of more than four hundred letters chronicles the author’s career, recording his struggles in the publishing world, the battles over Lolita, and his relationship with his wife, among other subjects, and gives a surprising look at the personality behind the creator of such classics as Pale Fire and Pnin. “Dip in anywhere, and delight follows.” —John Updike
The Defense
Author | : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Nabokov's Butterflies
Author | : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 820 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780807085400 |
"Literature and Lepidoptera dance an elaborate pas de deux through seventy years of Vladimir Nabokov's life, from his boyhood in Russia to his life as an emigre in the Crimea, Berlin, France, the United States, and finally in Switzerland. An American literary giant, Nabokov also produced first-rate work as a scientist, and in his fiction and elsewhere eloquently advocated attention to the details of the natural world and promoted the delights of discovery." "Nabokov's Butterflies presents Nabokov's twin passions through an astonishingly rich array of novel selections, stories, poems, screenplay, autobiography, criticism, lecturers, articles, reviews, interviews, letters, and notes, plus a wealth of beautiful and fanciful drawings by Nabokov and photographs of him in the field."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Middlemarch
Author | : George Eliot |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 2015-11-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0698408411 |
On April 10, 1994, PBS stations nationwide will air the first episode of a lavish six-part Masterpiece Theatre production of Eliot's brilliant work, Middlemarch, hosted by Russell Baker and produced by Louis Marks. The Modern Library is pleased to offer this official companion edition, complete with tie-in art and printed on acid-free paper. Unabridged.
The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir Nabokov's English Prose
Author | : J?rgen Bodenstein |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 767 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 5881083520 |
Nabokov's Dozen
Author | : Vladimir Nabokov |
Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2017-09-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780241302484 |
In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, mangled by it, with nowhere to escape to. Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lurk in all the corners. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they can be snatched, waylay their victims. Like the shimmer of the sea, the gleam of a glass caught by the sun, they sparkle brilliantly only to dissolve again. Two of the stories, 'First Love' and 'Mademoiselle O', are autobiographical, and 'The Assistant Producer' is based on real events, but the rest are pure flights of fantasy - or the stuff that life is weaved of?
Nabokov's Fifth Arc
Author | : J. E. Rivers |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2014-09-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1477302883 |
In his autobiography Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov compared his life to a spiral, in which “twirl follows twirl, and every synthesis is the thesis of the next series.” The first four arcs of the spiral of Nabokov’s life—his youth in Russia, voluntary exile in Europe, two decades spent in the United States, and the final years of his life in Switzerland—are now followed by a fifth arc, his continuing life in literary history, which this volume both explores and symbolizes. This is the first collection of essays to examine all five arcs of Nabokov’s creative life through close analyses of representative works. The essays cast new light on works both famous and neglected and place these works against the backgrounds of Nabokov’s career as a whole and modern literature in general. Nabokov analyzes his own artistry in his “Postscript to the Russian Edition of Lolita,” presented here in its first English translation, and in his little-known “Notes to Ada by Vivian Darkbloom,” published now for the first time in America and keyed to the standard U.S. editions of the novel. In addition to a defense of his father’s work by Dmitri Nabokov and a portrait-interview by Alfred Appel, Jr., the volume presents a vast spectrum of critical analyses covering all Nabokov’s major novels and several important short stories. The highly original structure of the book and the fresh and often startling revelations of the essays dramatize as never before the unity and richness of Nabokov’s unique literary achievement.
Nabokov's Dozen
Author | : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Publisher | : Ayer Company Publishers |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |