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Author | : Lucy Maddox |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2010-03-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0820334898 |
Download Nabokov's Novels in English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Lucy Maddox's sensitive treatment of Nabokov's eight finished novels written in English—Pale Fire, Ada, Lolita, Bend Sinister, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Transparent Things, Look at the Harlequins! and Pnin—approaches the novelist's work as significant fiction with its own integrity. Maddox provides the kind of discursive introduction that makes Nabokov's complex work more accessible, focusing on the relationship between the eccentric, artificial structures of the novels and their deeply traditional, humanistic themes. While the forms of the novels are idiosyncratic and often bizarre, says Maddox, the texts themselves are neither unfamiliar nor eccentric. Repeatedly the text is the frustration of desire or loss, which is for Nabokov the most agonizing and inescapable of human experiences. Maddox also traces through all eight novels the development of Nabokov's style, which she treats as a matter of both technique and vision.
Author | : Vladimir Nabokov |
Publisher | : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2024-02-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Pale Fire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, 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 also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should be. Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.
Author | : John Bertram |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 2013-07-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1440329885 |
Download Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What should Lolita look like? The question has dogged book-cover designers since 1955, when Lolita was first published in a plain green wrapper. The heroine of Vladimir Nabokov's classic novel has often been shown as a teenage seductress in heart-shaped glasses--a deceptive image that misreads the book but has seeped deep into our cultural life, from fashion to film. Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl: Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design reconsiders the cover of Lolita. Eighty renowned graphic designers and illustrators (including Paula Scher, Jessica Hische, Jessica Helfand, and Peter Mendelsund) offer their own takes on the book's jacket, while graphic-design critics and Nabokov scholars survey more than half a century of Lolita covers. You'll also find thoughtful essays from such design luminaries as Mary Gaitskill, Debbie Millman, Michael Bierut, Peter Mendelsund, Jessica Helfand, Alice Twemlow, Johanna Drucker, Leland de la Durantaye, Ellen Pifer, and Stephen Blackwell. Through the lenses of design and literature, Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl tells the strange design history of one of the most important novels of the 20th century--and offers a new way for thinking visually about difficult books. You'll never look at Lolita the same way again.
Author | : M.J. Haag |
Publisher | : Shattered Glass Publishing |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1638690510 |
Download Despair Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Not everything is what it seems. In a desperate bid to free her twin sister from an evil caster, Kellen flees her sheltered life under the cover of darkness. Lost and on the run from the cursed beasts lurking in the Dark Forest, she stumbles upon a clearing where seven handsome men reside. Despite their wariness towards her, Kellen finds herself drawn to them. Their laughter, camaraderie, and the way they gaze at her awaken a longing she’s never known. Her intuition whispers that she must stay, yet her loyalty to her sister compels her to find a way to leave. To plot her escape and save her sister, Kellen will need to navigate the seductive charm of the seven men and her yearning for acceptance in this darker version of Snow White that’s as spell-binding as the seven hot and endearing men who hold her captive.
Author | : Vladimir Nabokov |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2011-02-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307787478 |
Download Pnin Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 beginning of the rewards of this novel. Generous, bewildered Pnin, that most kindly and impractical of men, wins our affection and respect.” —Chicago Tribune Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunder-standings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator. Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader’s deepest protective instinct.
Author | : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780811217507 |
Download The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Nabokov's first novel in English, one of his greatest and most overlooked, with a new Introduction by Michael Dirda.
Author | : Vladimir Nabokov |
Publisher | : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2024-02-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the superb work of an imagination at white heat. This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.
Author | : Vladimir Nabokov |
Publisher | : Library of America Vladimir Na |
Total Pages | : 744 |
Release | : 1996-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download Vladimir Nabokov: Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951 (LOA #87) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Novels 1969 1974, Ada, Transparent Things, Look at the Harlequins.
Author | : Vladimir Nabokov |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 627 |
Release | : 2012-09-06 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0544106555 |
Download Selected Letters, 1940–1977 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“Wonderful, compulsively readable, delicious” personal correspondences, spanning decades in the life and literary career of the author of Lolita (The Washington Post Book World). An icon of twentieth-century literature, Vladimir Nabokov was a novelist, poet, and playwright, whose personal life was a fascinating story in itself. This collection of more than four hundred letters chronicles the author’s career, recording his struggles in the publishing world, the battles over Lolita, and his relationship with his wife, among other subjects, and gives a surprising look at the personality behind the creator of such classics as Pale Fire and Pnin. “Dip in anywhere, and delight follows.” —John Updike
Author | : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 820 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780807085400 |
Download Nabokov's Butterflies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Literature and Lepidoptera dance an elaborate pas de deux through seventy years of Vladimir Nabokov's life, from his boyhood in Russia to his life as an emigre in the Crimea, Berlin, France, the United States, and finally in Switzerland. An American literary giant, Nabokov also produced first-rate work as a scientist, and in his fiction and elsewhere eloquently advocated attention to the details of the natural world and promoted the delights of discovery." "Nabokov's Butterflies presents Nabokov's twin passions through an astonishingly rich array of novel selections, stories, poems, screenplay, autobiography, criticism, lecturers, articles, reviews, interviews, letters, and notes, plus a wealth of beautiful and fanciful drawings by Nabokov and photographs of him in the field."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved