Forfatter fødeår: 1899
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... Læs mere
Traces the bleak life of Hugh Person through murder, madness, prison and trips to Switzerland. This novel sinks into the transparent things of the world that surround this one Person, to the silent histories they carry.
Features a collection of Nabokov's poems span the decades of his career, from 'Music', written in 1914, to the short, playful 'To Vera', composed in 1974. this title also includes verse written on America, lepidoptery, sport, and love.
No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. From their meeting in 1921, Vladimir's letters to his beloved Vera form a narrative arc that tells... Læs mere
Includes sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy that display a range of inventiveness, with fairy tales, intellectual games and glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss.
Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman ('his slapdash and very misleading book'), the narrator, V, sets out to record Sebastian Knight's life as he understands it.
'Such a beautiful and mysterious book' Zadie SmithNabokov's 999-line poem written by the reclusive genius John Shade
First publication of an index-card diary in which Nabokov recorded sixty-four dreams and subsequent daytime episodes, allowing the reader a glimpse of his innermost life.
Two appendixes from Nabokov's famous edition of Eugene Onegin: his study of versification in English and Russian poetry, and his "term paper" on Pushkin's Ethiopian... Læs mere
Smurov, a fussily self-conscious Russian tutor, shoots himself after a humiliating beating by his mistress' husband. Unsure whether his suicide has been successful or not, Smurov drifts around... Læs mere