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3) Pnin
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English
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Presents the 1957 novel in which a Russian-born professor struggles to cope with American idioms and idiosyncrasies at a university in upstate New York.
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English
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Here, for the first time, the stories of one of the century's greatest prose stylists are collected in a single, comprehensive volume. Written from the early 1920s - the years of his exile from Russia - to the mid-1950s, when he abandoned the story form and turned to his English-language masterpieces Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, these stories reveal the fascinating progress of Nabokov's early development as they remind us that we are in the presence...
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Everyman's library volume no. 188
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xxxv, 268 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
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English
10) Mary: a novel
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xv, 114 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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Mary is a gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia--Nabokov's first novel. In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of seriocomic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair. His memories of Mary are suffused with the freshness of youth and the idyllic ambience of pre-revolutionary Russia. In stark contrast is the decidedly unappealing boarder living...
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xxiv, 147 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Written when he was only 24, this is Nabokov's earliest major work and his only full-length play, presented here for the first time in English, the story of which involves an incognito king whose love for the wife of a banished revolutionary brings on the chaos the king has fought to prevent.
15) Letters to Véra
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lix, 794 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"A collection of letters between Vladimir Nabokov and his wife, Vera"--
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223 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude," an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers, an executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by his in-laws, who lug their furniture with them into his cell. When Cincinnatus is led out to be executed, he simply wills his executioners...
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