Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Nabokov, Vladimir |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 1/6/2004 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Novelist, poet, critic, translator, and, above all, a peerless imaginer, VladimirNabokov was arguably the most dazzling prose stylist of the twentieth century. Innovels like Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, he turned language into an instrumentof ecstasy.
Vintage Nabokov includes sections 1-10 of his most famous and controversialnovel,
Lolita; the stories “The Return of Chorb,” “The Aurelian,” “A Forgotten Poet,”“Time and Ebb,” “Signs and Symbols,” “The Vane Sisters,” and “Lance”; and chapter12 from his memoir
Speak, Memory. Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers.
“It was Nabokov’s gift to bring paradise wherever he alighted.” —John Updike, The New York Review of Books
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