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Details of a Sunset And Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

vladimir-nabokov

Short Stories & Anthologies

McGraw=Hill

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

United States

Vintage Books

Tyrants destroyed, and other stories

The author comments upon the circumstances surrounding the writing of each of the thirteen stories produced between 1924 and 1939

Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories

History & Criticism

McGraw-Hill Book Company

The song of Igor's campaign: An epic of the twelfth century

UNKNOWN

Literary

McGraw-Hill Book Co.

In this collection of interviews, articles, and editorials, Nabokov ranges over his life, art, education, politics, literature, movies, and modern times, among other subjects.  Strong Opinions offers his trenchant, witty, and always engaging views on everything from the Russian Revolution to the correct pronunciation of Lolita.

Strong Opinions

Essays & Correspondence

When "Lolita" was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century. This annotated edition, a revised and considerably expanded version of the 1970 edition, does full justice to the textual riches of "Lolita", illuminating the elaborate verbal textures and showing how they contribute to the novel's overall meaning. Alfred Appel, Jr. also provides fresh observations on the novel's artifice, games and verbal patternings and a delightful biographical vignette of Nabokov. The annotations themselves were prepared in consultation with Nabokov while newly identified allusions were confirmed by him during the final years of his life.

The Annotated Lolita

Lev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian emigres. Alone in his room, he dreams of his first love, Mary. Awash with memories of youth and idyllic scenes of pre-Revolution Russia, Ganin becomes convinced that Mary is in fact the wife of a fellow-boarder, due to arrive at this very house soon. He longs for her arrival, when he can whisk her away and leave everything behind.

Mary: A novel

Classics

Edge wear and shelf wear to DJ. Small tears to DJ

Glory

Probes the mind of a man whose unconscious sexual and destructive obsessions drive him to strangle his wife and escape into the Europe of his past

Transparent Things: A Novel

Рассказы сборника "Весна в Фиальте" - блестящий образец относительно "позднего" периода творчества Набокова, периода, отмеченного интереснейшими стилистическими особенностями. Здесь набоковская проза снова - впервые за десятилетия - вступает в свою "реалистическую" фазу - однако в форме уже глубоко зрелой, мудрой, философичной. Иногда в этом реализме проглядывают нотки экспрессионистские, иногда - почти символистские, в целом же "Весна в Фиальте" - своеобразная квинтэссенция творческого мироощущения писателя "как оно есть" - мироощущения, пронесенного сквозь годы и годы...

Nabokov's Dozen

Penguin Books, Ltd.

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