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Lolita by Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
"Lolita" tells the story of aging Hubert Humbert who has an obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet, Dolores Haze. It is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. All in all, "Lolita" is filled with awe and exhilaration, along ...Show more
Look at the Harlequins! by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A dying man cautiously unravels the mysteries of memory and creation. Vadim is a Russian emigre who, like Nabokov, is a novelist, poet and critic. There are threads linking the fictional hero with his creator as he reconstructs the images of his past from young love to his serious illness.
The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Category: Classics
The annotated text of this modern classic. It assiduously illuminates the extravagant wordplay and the frequent literary allusions, parodies, and cross-references. Edited with a preface, introduction and notes by Alfred Appel, Jr.
Think, Write, Speak - Uncollected Essays, Reviews, and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov; Anastasia Tolstoy; Brian Boyd
Category: Reference
A rich gathering of the brilliant author's previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy. "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child": so Nabokov infamously wrote when introducing hi ...Show more
Transparent Things by Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
Category: Fiction
"Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero--sullen, gawky Hugh Person--to Switzerland . . . As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his b ...Show more
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