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Ada Or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, this is Nabokov's 'other' great love story; with some of Lolita's perversity and much more playfulness. Romance follows Ada and Van from their first childhood meeting through eight years of rapture, in a book which is regarded by many to be Nabokov's r ...Show more
Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Fiction
One of Nabokov's masterpieces; a complex love story troubled by incest. But there's more; it is also a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel and erotic catalogue.
Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Fiction
Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose by the acclaimed author of "Lolita" and "Pale Fire", "Ada or Ardor" is 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 c ...Show more
BEND SINISTER by NABOKOV VLADIMIR
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. His antagonist, ...Show more
Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic.While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man ...Show more
Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Fiction
This title is part of the fabulous new hardback library of 22 Vladimir Nabokov books, publishing over the coming year, with an elegant new jacket and text design. The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality a ...Show more
Cloud, Castle, Lake (PEN 70) by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Rock & Roll | Series: Pocket Penguins 70's S.
Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins Series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Bo ...Show more
Collected Poems by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Poetry
This landmark new collection brings together the best of the poetry of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and author of "Lolita" and "Pale Fire". It includes an extensive number of poems that have never appeared in English before, newly translated from the Russian by his s ...Show more
Collected Poems by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Fiction
This landmark new collection brings together the best of the poetry of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and author of "Lolita" and "Pale Fire", with an extensive number of poems never before in English, newly translated from the Russian by his son Dmitri Nabokov. These m ...Show more
Collected Poems: PMC by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Nabokov's masterly "Collected Poems" span the decades of his career, from "Music", written in 1914, to the short, playful "To Vera", composed in 1974. "The University Poem", one of Nabokov's major poetic works, is here in English for the first time: an extraordinary autobiographical poem looking back at ...Show more
Collected Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Written in inimitable prose, these 65 stories span Nabokov's extraordinary life and career. Arranged chronologically to illuminate his development as a writer, the collection displays Nabokov's range of technical and formal inventiveness.
Collected Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Fiction
A man at his desk is interrupted by the appearance of a woodland elf in his room; the piano maestro Bachmann ends his career; a barber shaves the face of a man who once tortured him; and a shy dreamer makes a deal with the Devil. In these sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy, Nabokov displays an a ...Show more