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Nabokov's Dozen: Thirteen Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, mangled by it, with nowhere to escape to. Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lurk in all the corners. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they ca ...Show more
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
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
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.
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: Classics | 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 Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century. This annotated edition, a revised and considerably expanded version of the 1970 edition, does full justice to the textual riches of Lolita, illuminat ...Show more
The Enchanter by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Nabokov described this novella, written in Paris in 1939 but only published twenty years later, as 'the first little throb of Lolita'. The plot is similar: a middle-aged man wedding an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her daughter. However, "The Enchanter" has an utt ...Show more
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 Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of the major novels by Vladimir Nabokov, originally entitled "The Defense". The novel features a chess-playing genius Luzhin who discovers his gift in boyhood, rising to the rank of Grandmaster.