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Library of America volume 88
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by Penguin Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
904 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Volume two of a three volume set collecting the works of Russian author Vladimir Nabokov, written after his emigration to the United States between 1955 and 1962.
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...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 89
Publisher
Literary of the United States
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
824 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969), the longest of Nabokov's novels, is a witty and parodic account of a man's lifelong love for his sister. All of his favorite themes and most characteristic techniques are woven into this culminating work of Nabokov's imagination. Transparent Things (1972) is a haunting novella of the anguished life of Hugh Person, a young American editor and proofreader: his marriage, the murder of his wife, and his lone journey...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 87
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by Penguin Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
710 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Volume one of a three volume set collecting the works of Russian author Vladimir Nabokov, written after his emigration to the United States in 1940.
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