Nabokov's Dozen
Thirteen Stories
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- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
13 November 2017
Summary
Thirteen strangely wrought stories make up Nabokov’s baker’s dozen. In some of these stories, shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, mangled by it, with nowhere to escape to. Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lurk in all the corners. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they can be snatched, waylay their victims. Like the shimmer of the sea, the gleam of a glass caught by the sun, they sparkle brilliantly only to dissolve again. Two of the stories, ‘First Love’ and ‘Mademoiselle O’, are autobiographical, and ‘The Assistant Producer’ is based on real events, but the rest are pure flights of fantasy - or the stuff that life is weaved of?
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241302484 |
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| ISBN-10: | 024130248X |
| Author: | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 13 November 2017 |
| Weight: | 139g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 129mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
At their best they display a Lawrentian power of evocation, a Proustian depth of subtlty, sadness and loss
At their best they display a Lawrentian power of evocation, a Proustian depth of subtlty, sadness and loss * Sunday Times *
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even ‘God’s own novelist’ (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.
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