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BEND SINISTER by NABOKOV VLADIMIR
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. His antagonist, ...Show more
Cloud, Castle, Lake (PEN 70) by Vladimir Nabokov
$3.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Pocket Penguins 70's S.
Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins Series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Bo ...Show more
Collected Poems by Vladimir Nabokov
$49.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This landmark new collection brings together the best of the poetry of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and author of "Lolita" and "Pale Fire". It includes an extensive number of poems that have never appeared in English before, newly translated from the Russian by his s ...Show more
Collected Poems: PMC by Vladimir Nabokov
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Nabokov's masterly "Collected Poems" span the decades of his career, from "Music", written in 1914, to the short, playful "To Vera", composed in 1974. "The University Poem", one of Nabokov's major poetic works, is here in English for the first time: an extraordinary autobiographical poem looking back at ...Show more
Collected Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A man at his desk is interrupted by the appearance of a woodland elf in his room; the piano maestro Bachmann ends his career; a barber shaves the face of a man who once tortured him; and a shy dreamer makes a deal with the Devil. In these sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy, Nabokov displays an a ...Show more
Collected Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Written in inimitable prose, these 65 stories span Nabokov's extraordinary life and career. Arranged chronologically to illuminate his development as a writer, the collection displays Nabokov's range of technical and formal inventiveness.
Eugene Onegin A Novel in Verse by Pushkin Aleksandr Sergeevich Nabokov Vladimir
$65.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Glory by Vladimir Nabokov
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"In general "Glory" is my happiest thing." "The fun of "Glory" is...to be sought in the echoing and linking of minor events, in back-and-forth switches, which produce an illusion of impetus; in an old daydream directly becoming the blessing of the ball hugged to one's chest, or in the casual vision of M ...Show more
Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first time-and placed in biographical and literary contextOn October 14th, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions he found ...Show more
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Takes us into the prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come.
LAUGHTER IN THE DARK by NABOKOV VLADIMIR
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Albinus - rich, married middle-aged and respectable - is an art critic and aspiring filmmaker who lusts after the coquettish young cinema usherette Margot. Gradually he seduces her and convinces himself he is irresistible to her, but Margot has other plans. She wants to be a film star, and when Albinus ...Show more
Lance by Vladimir Nabokov
$2.50 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern
The illegible signature of teetering disaster'Three great stories - The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance - the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the real pain and horror that would accompany space travel.