Vladimir Nabokov - Ada or Ardor BOOK REVIEW
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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
- ASIN: 0679729976
- ISBN: 0679729976
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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. T... [Read More]
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Lolita (Vintage International)
- ASIN: B003WUYRB8
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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Transparent Things
- ASIN: 0679725415
- ISBN: 0679725415
- Manufacturer: Vintage
"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 bride. . . . Eight years later--following a... [Read More]
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Keys to The Gift: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov's Novel (Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History)
- ASIN: 1934843970
- ISBN: 1934843970
- Manufacturer: Academic Studies Press
Yuri Leving's Keys to “The Gift”: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov's Novel is a new systematization of the main available data on Nabokov's most complex Russian novel, The Gift (1934–1939). From notes in Nabokov's private correspondence to scholarly articles accumulated during the seventy years since the novel’s first appearance in print, the wo... [Read More]
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Laughter in the Dark (Vintage International)
- ASIN: B004KABE1K
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse, Vol. 2
- ASIN: 0691019045
- ISBN: 0691019045
- Brand: Brand: Princeton University Press
- Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
When Vladimir Nabokov first published his controversial translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin in 1964, the great majority of the edition was taken up by Nabokov’s witty and detailed commentary. Presented here in its own volume, the commentary is a unique and exhaustive scholarly masterwork by one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers�... [Read More]
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Mary
- ASIN: 0679726209
- ISBN: 0679726209
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Mary is a gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia--Nabokov's first novel. In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of seriocomic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair. His memories of Mary are suffused with the freshness of youth and th... [Read More]
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The Enchanter
- ASIN: 0679728864
- ISBN: 0679728864
- Manufacturer: Vintage
The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov's classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and subconscious coquetry reveal, to his mind, a special bud on the verge of bloom.
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Vladimir Nabokov N(1899-1977) Russian-American Novelist Opening Lines Of The Autograph Manuscript Of His Novel Ada Poster Print by (24 x 36)
- ASIN: B07CG8WF4Y
- Brand: Posterazzi
- Size: 24 x 36 Inch
- Manufacturer: Granger Collection
Vladimir Nabokov /N(1899-1977). Russian-American Novelist. Opening Lines Of The Autograph Manuscript Of His Novel, 'Ada.' is a licensed reproduction that was printed on Premium Heavy Stock Paper which captures all of the vivid colors and details of the original. The overall paper size is 24.00 x 36.00 inches. This print is ready for hanging or fram... [Read More]
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Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
- ASIN: 0679725229
- ISBN: 0679725229
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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 eroti... [Read More]
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The Defense
- ASIN: 0679727221
- ISBN: 0679727221
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Nabokov's third novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the... [Read More]
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The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
- ASIN: 0679727299
- ISBN: 0679727299
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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Rust & Stardust: A Novel
- ASIN: B0791JX8WS
- Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
“Greenwood’s glowing dark ruby of a novel brilliantly transforms the true crime story that inspired Nabokov’s Lolita. Shatteringly original and eloquently written....So ferociously suspenseful, I found myself holding my breath.” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of YouCamden, NJ, 1948. When 11 year-old Sall... [Read More]
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Invitation to a Beheading
- ASIN: 0679725318
- ISBN: 0679725318
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude," an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimeric... [Read More]
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A Hero Of Our Time (World's Classics)
- ASIN: 0875010490
- ISBN: 0875010490
- Brand: Abrams Books
- Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
The first major Russian novel, A Hero of Our Time was both lauded and reviled upon publication. Its dissipated hero, twenty-five-year-old Pechorin, is a beautiful and magnetic but nihilistic young army officer, bored by life and indifferent to his many sexual conquests. Chronicling his unforgettable adventures in the Caucasus involving brigands, sm... [Read More]
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Lolita
- UPC: 031398719335
- ASIN: B00001IVFG
- ISBN: 1573627046
- Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Jeremy Irons is a remarkable man with a poisonous wound. A memory of a fated childhood love and haunting urge to rediscover it's lost passion.
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Lectures on Literature
- ASIN: 0156027755
- ISBN: 0156027755
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers; Introduction by John Updike; illustrations.
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Pnin
- ASIN: 0679723412
- ISBN: 0679723412
- Brand: Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is a tireless lover who writes to his treacherous Liza: "A genius needs to keep so much in store, and thus cannot offer you the whole of himself as I do." Pnin is the focal point of subtle academic conspiracies h... [Read More]
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The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
- ASIN: B0794YMYL1
- Manufacturer: Bloomsbury Publishing
A new memoir from acclaimed author Edmund White about his life as a reader.Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which opened up the seemingly closed world of homosexuality w... [Read More]
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Cleaning Nabokov's House: A Novel
- ASIN: 143919503X
- ISBN: 143919503X
- Manufacturer: Touchstone
Now in paperback, the stunning debut about a woman rediscovering herself after a divorce explores the heartbreaking and deeply funny aspects of the mess called love. With glowing reviews from the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, NPR’s All Things Considered, and more.When Barb Barrett walks out on he... [Read More]
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