Letters between one of the great 20th century novelists, Nabokov, and critic/essayists, Wilson.

The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: Correspondence Between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson 1940-1971

NABOKOV,Vladimir

WILSON, Edmund (Simon Karlinsky, ed.)

Harper&Row

"Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero--sullen, gawky Hugh Person--to Switzerland . . .  As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after  multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride. . . . Eight years later--following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment--Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past. . . . The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects."  --Martin Amis

Transparent Things

Literature & Fiction

United States

McGraw=Hill

Text: English, Russian (translation)

Details of a Sunset And Other Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

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 individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. His antagonist, the leader of the new party, is his old school enemy, Paduk - known as the 'Toad'. Grieving over his wife's recent death, Krug is at first dismissive of Paduk's activities and sees no threat in them. But the sinister machine which Paduk has set in motion may prove stronger than the individual, stronger even than the grotesque 'Toad' himself.

Bend Sinister

A Russian Beauty and Other Stories

King, Queen, Knave

This novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men’s clothing emporium. 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 thin, awkward, myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle’s condescension in his aunt’s bed. 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. “Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.” — John Updike

Literary

Look at the Harlequins! (McGraw-Hill Paperbacks)

McGraw-Hill Companies, The

No Dust Jacket. Pages are clean and binding is tight.

Ada, Or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

King Queen Knave

McGraw-Hill Companies

Selected poems in both Russian and English together with eighteen chess problems and their solutions demonstrate the intellectual complexity and creative versality of this contemporary Russian writer

Poems and Problems

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

McGraw-Hill Book Co.

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