Real Life of Sebastian Knight (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

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

Real Life of Sebastian Knight (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman ('his slapdash and very misleading book'), the narrator, V, sets out to record Sebastian Knight's life as he understands it. But buried amid the extensive quoting, digressions,

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

Lolita (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.'Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old

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

Transparent Things (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Traces the bleak life of Hugh Person through murder, madness, prison and trips to Switzerland. This novel sinks into the transparent things of the world that surround this one Person, to the silent histories they

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Glory (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

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

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,

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

The Annotated Lolita (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback)

Annotated Lolita (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

An annotated edition of 'Lolita'. It attempts to elaborate on the verbal textures and show how they contribute to the novel's overall meaning. It also provides observations on the novel's artifice, games and verbal

Letters to Vera (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. Vera Slonim shared his delight at the enchantment of life's trifles and literature's treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humour of any woman he had met. From their meeting in

Invitation to a Beheading (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Takes us into the prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will

Outlandish Knight - The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman (Dinshaw Minoo)(Paperback / softback)