Lectures on Russian Literature (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback)

Lectures on Russian Literature (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback)

The author's observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. 'This volume... never once fails to instruct and stimulate. This is a great Russian talking of great Russians' (Anthony Burgess). Edited and with an Introduction by

Lectures on Literature (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback)

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;

Nikolai Gogol (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since. His strange tales, though often read as forceful demands for social change, were displays of the fantasies of the human spirit. This book

Eye (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Smurov, a fussily self-conscious Russian tutor, shoots himself after a humiliating beating by his mistress' husband. Unsure whether his suicide has been successful or not, Smurov drifts around Berlin, observing his acquaintances, but finds he can discover very little about his own life from the

Gift (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

An autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. It tells the story of Fyodor's pursuits as a

Mary (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Lev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian emigres. Alone in his room, he dreams of his first love, Mary. Awash with memories of youth and idyllic scenes of pre-Revolution Russia, Ganin becomes convinced that Mary is in fact the wife of a fellow-boarder,

Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback)

Nabokov's dream diary--published for the first timeOn October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions in An Experiment with Time by British philosopher John

Revolver v kabelce - Monika Zgustová

Jméno Nabokov znají všichni, hlavně díky Lolitě. Považujeme ho za klasika moderní literatury, jeho díla tvoří kánon – a také kult. Monika Zgustová přibližuje čtenářům jeho osobnost spisovatelskou, ale také lidskou. V novele Revolver v kabelce sledujeme spisovatele

The Annotated Lolita (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback)

Speak, Memory - An Autobiography Revisited (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

An autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers - on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in

Nabokov's Dozen - Thirteen Stories (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Enchanter (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

A novella in which a middle-aged man weds an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her

Lolita (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis, ObserverPoet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A tortured soul

Collected Poems (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Features a collection of Nabokov's poems span the decades of his career, from 'Music', written in 1914, to the short, playful 'To Vera', composed in 1974. this title also includes verse written on America, lepidoptery, sport, and

Ada or Ardor (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

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 continents, are continually parted and reunited, come to learn the strange truth about their singular

Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (Propp Vladimir Yakovlevich)(Paperback)

Vladimir Propp is the Russian folklore specialist most widely known outside Russia thanks to the impact of his 1928 book Morphology of the Folktale-but Morphology is only the first of Propp's contributions to scholarship. This volume translates into English for the first time his book The Russian

Lolita - Vladimír Nabokov

Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster?

Nabokov´s Dozen - Vladimír Nabokov

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithCelebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime

Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Kelly Catriona)(Paperback)

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback)

'Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.' -- John Updike The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story -- subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax -- about the mysterious life of a famous writer. Many people knew

Russian School of Piano Playing Book 1 (Nikolaev Vladimir)(Paperback)

Russian School of Piano Playing Book 2 (Nikolaev Vladimir)(Paperback)

Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary (Vol. 2) (Pushkin Aleksandr)(Paperback)

Vladimir Nabokov's famous and brilliant commentary on Pushkin's Eugene Onegin 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 exhaustive commentary. Presented here in its

Collected Stories (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Includes sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy that display a range of inventiveness, with fairy tales, intellectual games and glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss