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Lolita (Hardcover)
Vladimir Nabokov
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Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully
designed clothbound edition 'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet
divine' Martin Amis Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes
obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first
carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all
the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A
tortured soul or a monster? Humbert Humbert's seduction is one of
many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is
suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures.
Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962 starring James Mason and Peter
Sellers, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne starring Jeremy Irons and
Melanie Griffith, Lolita has lost none of its power to shock and
awe.
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Pnin (Hardcover)
Vladimir Nabokov
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Lolita (Paperback)
Vladimir Nabokov
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For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov
introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here,
collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which
include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited and with a
Foreword by Fredson Bowers; Introduction by John Updike;
illustrations.
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-Smith
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take
us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England
to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on
the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and
printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile
cloth and stamped with foil. Thirteen ingeniously crafted stories
make up Vladimir Nabokov's baker's dozen. In some of these stories
shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, with nowhere to
escape. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which
flutter away before they can be snatched, waylay their victims.
Like the shimmer of the sea, the gleam of a glass caught by the
sun, these stories sparkle brilliantly only to dissolve again.
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first time--and placed in
biographical and literary context On 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 in An Experiment with
Time by the British philosopher John Dunne. The purpose was to test
the theory that time may go in reverse, so that, paradoxically, a
later event may generate an earlier dream. The result--published
here for the first time--is a fascinating diary in which Nabokov
recorded sixty-four dreams (and subsequent daytime episodes) on 118
index cards, which afford a rare glimpse of the artist at his most
private. More than an odd biographical footnote, the experiment
grew out of Nabokov's passionate interest in the mystery of time,
which influenced many of his novels, including the late masterpiece
Ada. Insomniac Dreams, edited by leading Nabokov authority Gennady
Barabtarlo, presents the text of Nabokov's dream experiment,
illustrated with a selection of his original index cards, and
provides rich annotations and analysis that put them in the context
of his life and writings. The book also includes previously
unpublished records of Nabokov's dreams from his letters and
notebooks and shows important connections between his fiction and
private writings on dreams and time.
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Mary
Vladimir Nabokov
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'A jack-in-the-box, a Faberge gem, a clockwork toy, a chess
problem, an infernal machine, a trap to catch reviewers, a
cat-and-mouse game, a do-it-yourself novel . . . one of the great
works of art of [the 20th] century' Mary McCarthy 'Nabokov writes
prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically'
John Updike 'The surest demonstration of his own genius' Harold
Bloom I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in
the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff - and I Lived on,
flew on, in the reflected sky. An ingeniously constructed parody of
detective fiction and learned commentary, Pale Fire offers a
cornucopia of deceptive pleasures, at the centre of which is a
999-line poem written by the literary genius John Shade just before
his death. Surrounding the poem is a foreword and commentary by the
demented scholar Charles Kinbote, who interweaves adoring literary
analysis with the fantastical tale of an assassin from the land of
Zembla in pursuit of a deposed king. Brilliantly constructed and
wildly inventive, this darkly witty novel of suspense, literary
one-upmanship, and political intrigue achieves that rarest of
things in literature - perfect tragicomic balance. A W&N
Essential
Nabokov's dream diary-published for the first time On October 14,
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 in An Experiment
with Time by British philosopher John Dunne. The purpose was to
test the theory that time may go in reverse, so that a later event
may generate an earlier dream. The result-published here for the
first time-is a fascinating diary in which Nabokov recorded
sixty-four dreams (and subsequent daytime episodes) on 118 index
cards, providing a rare glimpse of the artist at his most private.
Insomniac Dreams presents the text of Nabokov's dream experiment,
illustrated with a selection of his original index cards, and
provides rich annotations and analysis that put them in the context
of his life and writings.
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Lolita (Paperback)
Vladimir Nabokov
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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!
"Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called
Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his
wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved;
and his life ended in disaster." Thus begins Vladimir Nabokov's
Laughter in the Dark; this, the author tells us, is the whole story
except that he starts from here, with his characteristic dazzling
skill and irony, and brilliantly turns a fable into a chilling,
original novel of folly and destruction. Amidst a Weimar-era milieu
of silent film stars, artists, and aspirants, Nabokov creates a
merciless masterpiece as Albinus, an aging critic, falls prey to
his own desires, to his teenage mistress, and to Axel Rex, the
scheming rival for her affections who finds his greatest joy in the
downfall of others. Published first in Russian as Kamera Obskura in
1932, this book appeared in Nabokov's own English translation six
years later. This New Directions edition, based on the text as
Nabokov revised it in 1960, features a new introduction by Booker
Prize-winner John Banville.
The famous American poet John Shade was murdered in 1959. This book contains his last poem, Pale Fire, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he - can he possibly be - mad, bad, even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal, he reveals perhaps more than he should about 'the glorious friendship that brightened the last months of John Shade's life'.
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Lolita (Paperback)
Vladimir Nabokov
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Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the best-known novels of the
20th century: the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls
in love with twelve year old Lolita, beautifully repackaged as part
of the Penguin Essentials range. 'Lolita, light of my life, fire of
my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a
trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.
Lo. Lee. Ta.' Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college
professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter
Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to
stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he
wants. 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, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.' Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. This seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures.
'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.
Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down
the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.' Humbert
Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love
with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do
anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he
is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. 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?
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 thus cannot offer you the whole of himself as I do." Pnin is the focal point of subtle academic conspiracies he cannot begin to comprehend, yet he stages a faculty party to end all faculty parties forever.
The author's observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian
writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev.
"This volume... never once fails to instruct and stimulate. This is
a great Russian talking of great Russians" (Anthony Burgess).
Edited and with an Introduction by Fredson Bowers;
illustrations.
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Pnin (Paperback, New Ed)
Vladimir Nabokov; Afterword by Michael Wood
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Nabokov's comic masterpiece charts the wry, bizarre progress of Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, now precariously perched on a college campus in the fast-beating heart of the USA. A man of complex emotions, Pnin does halting battle with American life and lanuage. But in this moving, amusing story of a seemingly born loser at odds with the New World, there is all the pathos of a generation cruelly and irrevocably severed from its past.
Written in Berlin in 1934, Invitation to a Beheading contains all the surprise, excitement and magical intensity of a work created in two brief weeks of sustained inspiration. It takes us into the fantastic prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come. Nabokov described the book as ‘a violin in a void. The worldling will deem it a trick. Old men will hurriedly turn from it to regional romances and the lives of public figures … The evil-minded will perceive in little Emmie a sister of little Lolita … But I know a few readers who will jump up, ruffling their hair’.
Lolita (1955), Nabokov's single most famous work, is one of the
most controversial and widely read books of its time. Funny,
satiric, poignant, filled with allusions to earlier American
writers, it is the "confession" of a middle-aged, sophisticated
European emigre's passionate obsession with a 12-year-old American
"nymphet", and the story of their wanderings across a late 1940s
America of highways and motels. Pnin (1957) is a comic masterpiece
about a gentle bald Russian emigre professor in an American college
town who is never quite able to master its language, its politics,
or its train schedule. Pale Fire (1962) is a tour de force in the
form of an ostensibly autobiographical poem by a recently deceased
American poet and a critical commentary by an academic who is
something other than what he seems. The texts of this volume
incorporate Nabokov's penciled corrections in his own copies of his
works and correct long-standing errors. They are the most
authoritative versions available and have been prepared with the
assistance of Dmitri Nabokov, the novelist's son, and Brian Boyd,
Nabokov's award-winning biographer, who has also contributed notes
and a detailed chronology of the author's life based on new
research.
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Lance (Paperback)
Vladimir Nabokov
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'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. Penguin
Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the
iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a
concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here
are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman
Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson;
essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories
surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern
Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of
outer space.
Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and The Defense.
Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Nabokov's other great love story - offers even more sexual and imaginative surprises than Lolita. A romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, Nabokov's 'longest, richest, most ambitious novel' also becomes, as Brian Boyd says, a great many other things: 'myth, fairy tale, utopian idyll, family chronicle, personal memoir, historical romance, erotic catalogue ... picture gallery and filmic folly'.
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