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Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, with its wildly original narrative structure, is a postmodern masterpiece from the author of Lolita, skewering the politics of academia, the struggle for interpretation, and the infinite subjectivity of human experience, published in Penguin Modern Classics. The American po ...Show more
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
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 world.
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classics
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 ...Show more
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Biography & Memoir
"Speak, Memory", said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting 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 Pe ...Show more
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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 pre-Revolutio ...Show more
Terra Incognita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Mini Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
'The woods were gradually thinning. I was tormented by strange hallucinations. I gazed at the weird tree trunks, around some of which were coiled thick, flesh-coloured snakes; suddenly I thought I saw, between the trunks, as though through my fingers, the mirror of a half-open wardrobe'. These three sto ...Show more
The Enchanter by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
As the story of a middle-aged man's fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls who are, to his mind, special buds on the verge of bloom, THE ENCHANTER is the precursor to LOLITA.
The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Gift" is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. This gorgeous tapestry of literature and butterflies tells the story of Fyodor's pursuits as a writer. Its heroine is not Fy ...Show more
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman, the narrator, V, sets out to record Sebastian Knight's life as he understands it. But buried amid the extensive quoting, digressions, seeming explanations and meaningful digs at Mr Goo ...Show more
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
Here, for the first time, the stories of one of the century's greatest prose stylists are collected in a single, comprehensive volume. Written from the early 1920s - the years of his exile from Russia - to the mid-1950s, when he abandoned the story form and turned to his English-language masterpieces Lo ...Show more
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Biography & Memoir
The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordinary career. Each phase of his wandering life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at Cambridge in 1921, t ...Show more
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov; Brian Boyd (Editor); Anastasia Tolstoy (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordina ...Show more