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Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve

Ben Blatt
Nabokov s Favorite Word Is Mauve Book PDF

Author : Ben Blatt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781501105388

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Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve by Ben Blatt Pdf

"Blatt brings big data to the literary canon, exploring the wealth of fun findings that remain hidden in the works of the world's greatest writers. He assembles a database of thousands of books and hundreds of millions of words, and starts asking the questions that have intrigued curious word nerds and book lovers for generations: What are our favorite authors' favorite words? Do men and women write differently? Are bestsellers getting dumber over time? Which bestselling writer uses the most clichaes? What makes a great opening sentence? How can we judge a book by its cover? And which writerly advice is worth following or ignoring?"--Amazon.com.

Nabokov's Favourite Word is Mauve

Ben Blatt
Nabokov s Favourite Word is Mauve Book PDF

Author : Ben Blatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1471159493

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Nabokov's Favourite Word is Mauve by Ben Blatt Pdf

Nabokov's Favourite Word is Mauve is a playful look at what the numbers have to say about our favourite authors and their classic books. Journalist and statistician Ben Blatt asks the questions that have intrigued curious book lovers for generations: Does each writer have their own stylistic footprint? Do men and women write differently? What are the crutch words our best-loved authors fall back on? Which writer is the most cliched? Spanning from Shakespeare and Jane Austen to fan fiction, JK Rowling and Stephen King, Blatt reveals the quirks and oddities of the world's greatest writers. This is a lighthearted, humorous book that uses numbers to inform our understanding of words to enlighten, to clarify, and, above all, to entertain.

Pnin

Vladimir Nabokov
Pnin Book PDF

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307787477

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Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, Pnin brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity. “Fun and satire are just the beginning of the rewards of this novel. Generous, bewildered Pnin, that most kindly and impractical of men, wins our affection and respect.” —Chicago Tribune Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunder-standings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator. Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader’s deepest protective instinct.

Letters to Véra

Vladimir Nabokov
Letters to V ra Book PDF

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101875810

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Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

The letters of the great writer to his wife—gathered here for the first time—chronicle a decades-long love story and document anew the creative energies of an artist who was always at work. No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov’s to Véra Slonim. She shared his delight in life’s trifles and literature’s treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humor of any woman he had met. From their first encounter in 1923, Vladimir’s letters to Véra form a narrative arc that tells a half-century-long love story, one that is playful, romantic, pithy and memorable. At the same time, the letters tell us much about the man and the writer. We see the infectious fascination with which Vladimir observed everything—animals, people, speech, the landscapes and cityscapes he encountered—and learn of the poems, plays, stories, novels, memoirs, screenplays and translations on which he worked ceaselessly. This delicious volume contains twenty-one photographs, as well as facsimiles of the letters themselves and the puzzles and doodles Vladimir often sent to Véra.

Selected Letters, 1940–1977

Vladimir Nabokov
Selected Letters 1940 1977 Book PDF

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : HMH
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780544106550

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Selected Letters, 1940–1977 by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

“Wonderful, compulsively readable, delicious” personal correspondences, spanning decades in the life and literary career of the author of Lolita (The Washington Post Book World). An icon of twentieth-century literature, Vladimir Nabokov was a novelist, poet, and playwright, whose personal life was a fascinating story in itself. This collection of more than four hundred letters chronicles the author’s career, recording his struggles in the publishing world, the battles over Lolita, and his relationship with his wife, among other subjects, and gives a surprising look at the personality behind the creator of such classics as Pale Fire and Pnin. “Dip in anywhere, and delight follows.” —John Updike

Despair

Владимир Владимирович Набоков
Despair Book PDF

Author : Владимир Владимирович Набоков
Publisher : TarcherPerigee
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015000580103

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Despair by Владимир Владимирович Набоков Pdf

Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder.

Stalking Nabokov

Brian Boyd
Stalking Nabokov Book PDF

Author : Brian Boyd
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231158572

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Stalking Nabokov by Brian Boyd Pdf

In this book, Brian Boyd surveys Vladimir Nabokov's life, career, and legacy; his art, science, and thought; his subtle humor and puzzle-like storytelling; his complex psychological portraits; and his inheritance from, reworking of, and affinities with Shakespeare, Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Machado de Assis. Boyd also offers new ways of reading Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada or Ardor, and the unparalleled autobiography, Speak, Memory, disclosing otherwise unknown information about the author's world. Sharing his personal reflections as he recounts the adventures, hardships, and revelations of researching Nabokov's life? oeuvre?, he cautions against using Nabokov's metaphysics as the key to unlocking all of the enigmatic author's secrets. Assessing and appreciating Nabokov as novelist, memoirist, poet, translator, scientist, and individual, Boyd helps us understand more than ever Nabokov's multifaceted genius.

Think, Write, Speak

Vladimir Nabokov Literary Trust,Brian Boyd
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Author : Vladimir Nabokov Literary Trust,Brian Boyd
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101873700

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Think, Write, Speak by Vladimir Nabokov Literary Trust,Brian Boyd Pdf

A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy. “I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child": so Vladimir Nabokov famously wrote in the introduction to his volume of selected prose, Strong Opinions. Think, Write, Speak follows up where that volume left off, with a rich compilation of his uncollected prose and interviews, from a 1921 essay about Cambridge to two final interviews in 1977. The chronological order allows us to watch the Cambridge student and the fledgling Berlin reviewer and poet turn into the acclaimed Paris émigré novelist whose stature brought him to teach in America, where his international success exploded with Lolita and propelled him back to Europe. Whether his subject is Proust or Pushkin, the sport of boxing or the privileges of democracy, Nabokov’s supreme individuality, his keen wit, and his alertness to the details of life illuminate the page.

Nabokov's Otherworld

Vladimir E. Alexandrov
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Author : Vladimir E. Alexandrov
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400861712

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Nabokov's Otherworld by Vladimir E. Alexandrov Pdf

A major reexamination of the novelist Vladimir Nabokov as "literary gamesman," this book systematically shows that behind his ironic manipulation of narrative and his puzzle-like treatment of detail there lies an aesthetic rooted in his intuition of a transcendent realm and in his consequent redefinition of "nature" and "artifice" as synonyms. Beginning with Nabokov's discursive writings, Vladimir Alexandrov finds his world view centered on the experience of epiphany--characterized by a sudden fusion of varied sensory data and memories, a feeling of timelessness, and an intuition of immortality--which grants the true artist intimations of an "otherworld." Readings of The Defense, Invitation to a Beheading, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Lolita, and Pale Fire reveal the epiphanic experience to be a touchstone for the characters' metaphysical insightfulness, moral makeup, and aesthetic sensibility, and to be a structural model for how the narratives themselves are fashioned and for the nature of the reader's involvement with the text. In his conclusion, Alexandrov outlines several of Nabokov's possible intellectual and artistic debts to the brilliant and variegated culture that flourished in Russia on the eve of the Revolution. Nabokov emerges as less alienated from Russian culture than most of his emigre readers believed, and as less "modernist" than many of his Western readers still imagine. "Alexandrov's work is distinctive in that it applies an `otherworld' hypothesis as a consistent context to Nabokov's novels. The approach is obviously a fruitful one. Alexandrov is innovative in rooting Nabokov's ethics and aesthetics in the otherwordly and contributes greatly to Nabokov studies by examining certain key terms such as `commonsense,' `nature,' and `artifice.' In general Alexandrov's study leads to a much clearer understanding of Nabokov's metaphysics."--D. Barton Johnson, University of California, Santa Barbara Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Elephant Thief

Lia Patterson
Elephant Thief Book PDF

Author : Lia Patterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Elephants
ISBN : 1370426496

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Elephant Thief by Lia Patterson Pdf

When magically gifted Arisha runs away from an army camp with her elephant Hami in order to save him from death in battle, she thinks she's in deep trouble. However, she soon discovers that things can always get worse.Escaping across a war-torn country, they are captured by the enemy's leader. Rhys, known as the Eagle and with a reputation as a cold blooded killer, wants to use the elephant to take revenge on Arisha's people and needs her to control Hami.Arisha is ready to fight him every step of the way, but to her annoyance, instead of throwing her in a rat-infested prison, he behaves with honour. Grudgingly she comes to respect him and they find themselves drawn to each other despite their differences.But can Arisha bridge the gap between opposing countries and personalities before the decisive battle is joined?A tale of elemental magic, almond eyes, daring escapes and feathers.

Insomniac Dreams

Vladimir Nabokov
Insomniac Dreams Book PDF

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691196909

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Insomniac Dreams by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

First publication of an index-card diary in which Nabokov recorded sixty-four dreams and subsequent daytime episodes, allowing the reader a glimpse of his innermost life.

Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl

John Bertram,Yuri Leving
Lolita The Story of a Cover Girl Book PDF

Author : John Bertram,Yuri Leving
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781440329883

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Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl by John Bertram,Yuri Leving Pdf

What should Lolita look like? The question has dogged book-cover designers since 1955, when Lolita was first published in a plain green wrapper. The heroine of Vladimir Nabokov's classic novel has often been shown as a teenage seductress in heart-shaped glasses--a deceptive image that misreads the book but has seeped deep into our cultural life, from fashion to film. Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl: Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design reconsiders the cover of Lolita. Eighty renowned graphic designers and illustrators (including Paula Scher, Jessica Hische, Jessica Helfand, and Peter Mendelsund) offer their own takes on the book's jacket, while graphic-design critics and Nabokov scholars survey more than half a century of Lolita covers. You'll also find thoughtful essays from such design luminaries as Mary Gaitskill, Debbie Millman, Michael Bierut, Peter Mendelsund, Jessica Helfand, Alice Twemlow, Johanna Drucker, Leland de la Durantaye, Ellen Pifer, and Stephen Blackwell. Through the lenses of design and literature, Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl tells the strange design history of one of the most important novels of the 20th century--and offers a new way for thinking visually about difficult books. You'll never look at Lolita the same way again.

I Don't Care If We Never Get Back

Ben Blatt,Eric Brewster
I Don t Care If We Never Get Back Book PDF

Author : Ben Blatt,Eric Brewster
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0802123767

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I Don't Care If We Never Get Back by Ben Blatt,Eric Brewster Pdf

A pair of friends from Harvard embark on a road trip to see 30 baseball games in 30 different stadiums over 30 days and describe their misadventures in this book about sports fans, loyalty, hot dogs and friendship.

Glory

Vladimir Nabokov
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Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679727248

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Glory by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twenty-two-year-old Russian émigré of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him. Convinced that his life is about to be wasted and hoping to impress his love, he embarks on a "perilous, daredevil project"--an illegal attempt to re-enter the Soviet Union, from which he and his mother had fled in 1919. He succeeds--but at a terrible cost.

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire Book PDF

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should be. Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.