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Lectures on Russian Literature by Vladimir Nabokov
$22.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
This volume complements the widely praised "Lectures on Literature, " which the "Washington Post Book World" ranked with "with Flaubert's letters, James' prefaces and Woolf's diaries as privileged, nourishing, irreplaceable meditations on the art of fiction."
Letters to Vera by Vladimir Nabokov
$42.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014. No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. Vera Slonim shared his delight at the enchantment of life's trifles and literature's treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humour of any woman he had met ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The story of Humbert Humbert, poet and pervert, and his obsession with 12-year-old Dolores Haze. Determined to possess his "Lolita" both carnally and artistically, Humbert embarks on a disastrous courtship that can only end in tragedy.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics
The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. "The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very spec ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: The Penguin Vladimir Nabokov Hardback Collection | Reading Level: very good
'You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style'. Humbert Humbert, a European intellectual adrift in America, is a middle-aged college professor. Haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love, he falls outrageously (and illegally) in lust with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Dolores ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? . . . Or is he all of these?
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but wh ...Show more
Lolita: Popular Penguins by Vladimir Nabokov
$9.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing. Almost fifty years a ...Show more
Mary by Vladimir Nabokov
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Lev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian emigres. Alone in his room, he dreams of his first love, Mary. Awash with memories of youth and idyllic scenes of pre-Revolution Russia, Ganin becomes convinced that Mary is in fact the wife of a fellow-boarder, due t ...Show more
Mary by Vladimir Nabokov
$12.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Penguin Great Loves | Reading Level: very good
Alone in his room in a dirty Berlin pension, Ganin reminisces about Mary, his first love. He fantasizes that a fellow lodger's wife, due to arrive the next day, is his long-lost sweetheart and plots how they will run away together, leaving everything else far behind ...United by the theme of love, the w ...Show more
Nabokov's Dozen by Vladimir Nabokov
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithThirteen ingeniously crafted stories make up Vladimir Nabokov's baker's dozen. In some of these stories shadowy ...Show more