The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (Nabokov Vladimir)(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

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,

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

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

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

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

Lolita (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback)

The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. 'One of the funniest serious novels I have ever read.' --Atlantic MonthlyAwe and

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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