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(0)Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
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Library of America volume 87
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
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Author
Series
Library of America volume 89
Publisher
Literary of the United States
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969), the longest of Nabokov's novels, is a witty and parodic account of a man's lifelong love for his sister. All of his favorite themes and most characteristic techniques are woven into this culminating work of Nabokov's imagination. Transparent Things (1972) is a haunting novella of the anguished life of Hugh Person, a young American editor and proofreader: his marriage, the murder of his wife, and his lone journey...
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1978, c1938
Language
Russian
Description
Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Written when he was only 24, this is Nabokov's earliest major work and his only full-length play, presented here for the first time in English, the story of which involves an incognito king whose love for the wife of a banished revolutionary brings on the chaos the king has fought to prevent.
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Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This volume brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century's master prose writers. Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was a Russian American scientist, poet, translator, and professor of literature. Critics throughout the world celebrated him for developing the luminous and enigmatic style which advanced the boundaries of modern literature more than any author since James Joyce. In a career that spanned over six decades,...
9) Lolita
Author
Series
Coleccion compactos volume 34
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
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Author
Series
Library of America volume 88
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English