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Ada Or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, this is Nabokov's 'other' great love story; with some of Lolita's perversity and much more playfulness. Romance follows Ada and Van from their first childhood meeting through eight years of rapture, in a book which is regarded by many to be Nabokov's r ...Show more
Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov
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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
King, Queen, Knave by Vladimir Nabokov
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Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled ne ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin Vladimir Nabokov Hardback Collection
'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
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials
'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 Lo ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
This is a journey through madness and death resulting in stylized violence, narrated with irony and lyricism by Humbert himself. Lolita is also an acerbic and visionary portrait of the United States, its suburban horrors, and of motel and plastic culture.
Lolita: Popular Penguins by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
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
Nabokov's Dozen: Thirteen Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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: Classics | 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: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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: Classics | 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