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Despair by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Fiction
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.
Despair by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Fiction
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 to be his double reveals a frightening 'split' in Hermann's nature. With shattering immediacy, Nabokov takes us int ...Show more
Despair by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 to be his double reveals a frightening 'split' in Hermann's nature. With shattering immediacy, Nabokov takes us int ...Show more
Glory by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Fiction
"In general "Glory" is my happiest thing." "The fun of "Glory" is...to be sought in the echoing and linking of minor events, in back-and-forth switches, which produce an illusion of impetus; in an old daydream directly becoming the blessing of the ball hugged to one's chest, or in the casual vision of M ...Show more
Insomniac Dreams: Experiments With Time by Vladimir Nabokov; Gennady Barabtarlo (Commentaries by, Editor)
Category: Languages and Reference
Nabokov's dream diary--published for the first time On October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions in An Experiment with Time by British philosopher John Du ...Show more
Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Languages and Reference
Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first time-and placed in biographical and literary contextOn October 14th, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions he found ...Show more
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Fiction
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 takes us into the fantastic prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not ...Show more
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Fiction
A vision of a bizarre and irrational world where Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for an imaginery crime in an unnamed dream country. (Talk about existential!)
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Takes us into the prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come.
King, Queen, Knave by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Fiction
Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it 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 ne ...Show more
King, Queen, Knave by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Fiction
"Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest", Nabokov wrote of "King, Queen, Knave". Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped and mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacle ...Show more