Selected Letters, 1940–1977
Selected Letters, 1940–1977

Author: Vladimir Nabokov

Publisher: HMH

Published: 2012-09-06

Total Pages: 627

ISBN-13: 0544106555

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“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 Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Author: Vladimir Nabokov

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-02-16

Total Pages: 706

ISBN-13: 0307788091

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From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time--display all the shades of Nabokov's imagination. They range from sprightly fables to bittersweet tales of loss, from claustrophobic exercises in horror to a connoisseur's samplings of the table of human folly. Read as a whole, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov offers and intoxicating draft of the master's genius, his devious wit, and his ability to turn language into an instrument of ecstasy.

Details of a Sunset
Details of a Sunset

Author: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 9780297771906

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Oorspronkelijk in het Russisch geschreven verhalen uit de periode 1924-'35.

Strong Opinions
Strong Opinions

Author: Vladimir Nabokov

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1990-03-17

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0679726098

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Strong Opinions offers Nabokov's trenchant, witty, and always engaging views on everything from the Russian Revolution to the correct pronunciation of Lolita. • "First published in 1973, this collection of interviews and essays offers an intriguing insight into one of the most brilliant authors of the 20th century." - The Guardian Nabokov ranges over his life, art, education, politics, literature, movies, among other subjects. Keen to dismiss those who fail to understand his work and happy to butcher those sacred cows of the literary canon he dislikes, Nabokov is much too entertaining to be infuriating, and these interviews, letters and articles are as engaging, challenging and caustic as anything he ever wrote.

Nabokov's Dozen
Nabokov's Dozen

Author: Vladimir Nabokov

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2017-09-07

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 0241302498

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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?

Despair
Despair

Author: M.J. Haag

Publisher: Shattered Glass Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1638690510

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Not everything is what it seems. In a desperate bid to free her twin sister from an evil caster, Kellen flees her sheltered life under the cover of darkness. Lost and on the run from the cursed beasts lurking in the Dark Forest, she stumbles upon a clearing where seven handsome men reside. Despite their wariness towards her, Kellen finds herself drawn to them. Their laughter, camaraderie, and the way they gaze at her awaken a longing she’s never known. Her intuition whispers that she must stay, yet her loyalty to her sister compels her to find a way to leave. To plot her escape and save her sister, Kellen will need to navigate the seductive charm of the seven men and her yearning for acceptance in this darker version of Snow White that’s as spell-binding as the seven hot and endearing men who hold her captive.

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Author: Vladimir Nabokov

Publisher: ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع

Published: 2024-02-17

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13:

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Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the superb work of an imagination at white heat. This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.

Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories
Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories

Author: Vladimir Vladimirovič Nabokov

Publisher:

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780140086256

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Bundel met dertien verhalen, geschreven in de jaren twintig en dertig in Parijs en Berlijn.

Torpid Smoke
Torpid Smoke

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-10-18

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9004483896

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From the contents: Memory and dream in Nabokov's short fiction (B. Wyllie). - Nabokov's approach to the supernatural in the early stories (J.W. Connoly). - Nabokov's Christmas stories (R.H.W. Dillard). - Art and marriage in Vladimir Nabokov's Music and in Lev Tolstoy's The Kreutzer sonata (N.W. Balestrini). - How they brought the bad news to Mints: Breaking the news (S.G. Kellman). - Alone in the void: Mademoiselle O (J.E. Rivers). - Nabokov's Vasily Shishkov: an author-text interpretation (M.D. Shrayer). - Ville scripts: games of double-crossing in Vladimir Nabokov's The assistant producer (C. Moraru).

Nabokov's Butterflies
Nabokov's Butterflies

Author: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 820

ISBN-13: 9780807085400

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"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