The Original of Laura
(Dying Is Fun) A Novel in Fragments
$22.94
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2013
Summary
The final masterwork that was nearly destroyed, from one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century.
Dr Philip Wild, a man of brilliance, wit, fortune and tremendous bulk, is used to suffering humiliations at the hands of his wife, the younger, slender, and rudely promiscuous Flora. But in a novel, a ‘maddening masterpiece’ documenting her infidelities, written by one of her lovers and given to the doctor, she appears as My Laura. Dishonoured, Wild still finds pleasure in life, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141191164 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141191163 |
| Author: | Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2013 |
| Weight: | 264g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
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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