The Stories Of Vladimir Nabokov

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307788092

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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time--display all the shades of Nabokov's imagination. They range from sprightly fables to bittersweet tales of loss, from claustrophobic exercises in horror to a connoisseur's samplings of the table of human folly. Read as a whole, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov offers and intoxicating draft of the master's genius, his devious wit, and his ability to turn language into an instrument of ecstasy.

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : HMH
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 40,9 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

Author : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0141022353

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Cloud, Castle, Lake by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Pdf

In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. shocked a generation when Putnam, now a part of the Penguin group, published Lolita the account of one man's longing for a very young girl in 1955. Stylish, intricate and sensuous, these wickedly inventive stories are a rich combination of humour and horror: exploring questions of literature, love, madness and memory.

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,7 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.

Author : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov,Vladimir Vladimirovič Nabokov,Dmitri Nabokov
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction in Russian, 1917- Texts (including translations)
ISBN : 0297771906

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Details of a Sunset by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov,Vladimir Vladimirovič Nabokov,Dmitri Nabokov Pdf

Oorspronkelijk in het Russisch geschreven verhalen uit de periode 1924-'35.

Author : John Bertram,Yuri Leving
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 55,8 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.

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1989-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679725411

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Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

The darkly comic Transparent Things, one of Nabokov's final books, traces the bleak life of Hugh Person through murder, madness, prison and trips to Switzerland. One of these was the last journey his father ever took; on another, having been sent to ingratiate himself with a distinguished novelist, he met his future wife. "As casual, as unpredictable, as eccentric and as daunting as Mr. Nabokov's genius." -Mavis Gallant, The New York Times Book Review Nabokov's brilliant short novel sinks into the transparent things of the world that surround this one person, to the silent histories they carry. Remarkable even in Nabokov's work for its depth and lyricism, Transparent Things is a small, experimental marvel of memories and dreams, both sentimental and malign. “The final effect is both chill and comic, the transparencies both beautiful and terrifying.” —The Times (London)

Author : Steven G. Kellman,Irving Malin
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Narrative
ISBN : 9042007192

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Torpid Smoke by Steven G. Kellman,Irving Malin Pdf

From the contents: Memory and dream in Nabokov's short fiction (B. Wyllie). - Nabokov's approach to the supernatural in the early stories (J.W. Connoly). - Nabokov's Christmas stories (R.H.W. Dillard). - Art and marriage in Vladimir Nabokov's Music and in Lev Tolstoy's The Kreutzer sonata (N.W. Balestrini). - How they brought the bad news to Mints: Breaking the news (S.G. Kellman). - Alone in the void: Mademoiselle O (J.E. Rivers). - Nabokov's Vasily Shishkov: an author-text interpretation (M.D. Shrayer). - Ville scripts: games of double-crossing in Vladimir Nabokov's The assistant producer (C. Moraru).

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990-03-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780679726098

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Strong Opinions by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

In this collection of interviews, articles, and editorials, Nabokov ranges over his life, art, education, politics, literature, movies, and modern times, among other subjects. Strong Opinions offers his trenchant, witty, and always engaging views on everything from the Russian Revolution to the correct pronunciation of Lolita.

Author : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Manners and customs
ISBN : 0297817221

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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Pdf

From one of the greatest prose stylists of our time,his complete short stories, including 13 hitherto unpublished,brought toghether for the first time.

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,6 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.

Author : Brian Boyd
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400884032

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Vladimir Nabokov by Brian Boyd Pdf

The story of Nabokov's life continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940. He found that supporting himself and his family was not easy--until the astonishing success of Lolita catapulted him to world fame and financial security.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004483897

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Torpid Smoke by Anonim Pdf

From the contents: Memory and dream in Nabokov's short fiction (B. Wyllie). - Nabokov's approach to the supernatural in the early stories (J.W. Connoly). - Nabokov's Christmas stories (R.H.W. Dillard). - Art and marriage in Vladimir Nabokov's Music and in Lev Tolstoy's The Kreutzer sonata (N.W. Balestrini). - How they brought the bad news to Mints: Breaking the news (S.G. Kellman). - Alone in the void: Mademoiselle O (J.E. Rivers). - Nabokov's Vasily Shishkov: an author-text interpretation (M.D. Shrayer). - Ville scripts: games of double-crossing in Vladimir Nabokov's The assistant producer (C. Moraru).

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 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.

Author : Vladimir Vladimirovic Nabokov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:659784257

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Nabokov's Dozen by Vladimir Vladimirovic Nabokov Pdf