Nikolai Gogol (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Government Inspector (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback / softback)

The news that a government inspector is due to arrive in a small Russian town sends its bureaucrats into a panicked

Dead Souls: New Translation - Nikolai Gogol

A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town andproceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an unusual andsomewhat macabre proposition. He offers to buy the rights to the dead serfs who arestill registered on the landowner's estate, thus

King, Queen, Knave (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

'Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius' David Lodge'Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his

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

MYSTERIOUS PORTRAIT(Paperback)

The Portrait is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, originally published in the short story collection Arabesques in 1835 and is one of Gogols' most demonic of tales, hinting at some of his earlier works such as 'St. John's

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

Glory (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Linking various minor events, this work switches back-and-forth producing an illusion of

Lolita (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. Is he in love or insane? This is a

Luzhin Defense (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of International Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster Turati, he brings into play his carefully devised

Dead Souls (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback)

Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert Guerney; the translation was hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as an extraordinarily fine

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;

Gogol Collected Tales (Gogol Nikolai)(Pevná vazba)

Collected here are Gogol's finest tales - stories which combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller - allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way of Dostoevsky and

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,

Pnin (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart of campus America. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new

Despair (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with a man he believes to be his double reveals a frightening 'split' in Hermann's

Dead Souls (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback)

One of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on