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Paperback Books by Vladimir Nabokov
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| The Real Life of Sebastian Knight |
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| by Vladimir Nabokov |
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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 --... Read More |
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| Publication Date: February 1992 |
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| Glory |
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| by Vladimir Nabokov |
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| Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twnety-two-year-old Russian emigre 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... Read More |
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| Publication Date: November 1991 |
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| The Enchanter |
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| by Vladimir Nabokov |
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| The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov's classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and... Read More |
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| Publication Date: July 1991 |
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| The Gift |
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| by Vladimir Nabokov |
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| The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the... Read More |
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| Publication Date: May 1991 |
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| The Eye |
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| by Vladimir Nabokov |
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| Nabokov's fourth novel, The Eye is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances. Nabokov's protagonist, Smurov, is a lovelorn, excruciatingly self-conscious... Read More |
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| Publication Date: September 1990 |
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| The Defense |
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| by Vladimir Nabokov |
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| Nabokov's third novel, The Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up... Read More |
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| Publication Date: August 1990 |
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| Publication Date: June 1990 |
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| Bend Sinister |
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| by Vladimir Nabokov |
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| The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and... Read More |
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| Publication Date: April 1990 |
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| Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle |
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| by Vladimir Nabokov |
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| Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a... Read More |
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| Publication Date: February 1990 |
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| Laughter in the Dark |
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| by Vladimir Nabokov |
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| Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues.... Read More |
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| Publication Date: December 1989 |
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| Mary |
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| by Vladimir Nabokov |
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| Mary is a gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia--Nabokov's first novel. In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of seriocomic Russian emigres, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his... Read More |
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| Publication Date: November 1989 |
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| Transparent Things |
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| by Vladimir Nabokov |
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| Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero--sullen, gawky Hugh Person--to Switzerland . . . As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple... Read More |
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| Publication Date: October 1989 |
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| Invitation to a Beheading |
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| by Vladimir Nabokov |
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| Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for 'gnostical turpitude.' an imaginary crime... Read More |
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| Publication Date: September 1989 |
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| Publication Date: August 1989 |
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| King, Queen, Knave |
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| by Vladimir Nabokov |
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| The novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium store. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife... Read More |
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| Publication Date: July 1989 |
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| Pnin |
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| by Vladimir Nabokov |
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| Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is a tireless lover who writes to his treacherous Liza: 'A genius needs to keep so much in store, and... Read More |
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| Publication Date: June 1989 |
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| Despair |
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| by Vladimir Nabokov |
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| 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. |
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| Publication Date: May 1989 |
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| Pale Fire |
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| by Vladimir Nabokov |
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| In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense,... Read More |
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| Publication Date: April 1989 |
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| Lolita |
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| by Vladimir Nabokov |
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| Vladimir Nabokov’s notorious, hilarious erotic murder mystery takes the form of a monologue by his hero, Humbert Humbert, as he attempts to justify his love for and obsession with the barely adolescent Dolores Haze, known as Lolita.... Read More |
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| Publication Date: March 1989 |
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| Publication Date: January 1961 |
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| The Real Life of Sebastian Knight |
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| by Vladimir Nabokov |
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| On the surface, this is a literary detective story-subtle, intricate, and building to a tantalizing climax. On another level, it has pungent points to make about the role of the artist in a society that is basically hostile to he creative... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 1959 |
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| Publication Date: January 1959 |
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