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Bend
Sinister
by
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Book
Description
The
first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most
overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern
classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically
delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and
compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny
of a police state. It is first and foremost a compelling narrative
about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of
a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher,
offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader
of the Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling
and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support
in order to validate the new regime.
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King,
Queen, Knave
by
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov (Translator)
Book
Description
The
novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor
of a men's clothing emporium store. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and
thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite
but cold middle-class wife Martha. Attracted to his money but
repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew
instead, the myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon
repays his uncle's condescension in his aunt's bed.
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Laughter
in the Dark (Vintage International)
by
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Book
Description
Nabokov
writes prose the only way it should be written that is, a ecstatically."
-- John Updike
Albinus,
a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons
his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become
a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American
movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly
sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and
deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in
the 1930s.
Ingram
Irresistibly
ironic, this chilling novel of folly and destruction is about
a January to May romance between a sensitive, middle-aged man
and a cretinous girl half his age.
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Pnin
(Vintage International)
by
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Book
Description
Nabokov
writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically."
-- John Updike
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.
One
of the twentieth century's master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov
was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian
literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin
and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940
he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist,
poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley,
Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux,
Switzerland, where he died in 1977.
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