Collected Stories - Rilegato

Nabokov, Vladimir

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ISBN 10: 0141197161 ISBN 13: 9780141197166

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2012

Riassunto

A man at his desk is interrupted by the appearance of a woodland elf in his room; the piano maestro Bachmann ends his career; a barber shaves the face of a man who once tortured him; a shy dreamer makes a deal with the Devil. In these sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy, Nabokov displays an astonishing range of inventiveness, with dazzling sleight of hand, fantastical fairy tales, intellectual games and enchanting glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss.

This landmark new collection brings together the best of the short stories of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and author of Lolita and Pale Fire.

Part of a major new beautiful hardback series of Vladimir Nabokov's work in Penguin Classics.

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L'autore:

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century, as well as a translator and lepidopterist. His works include, from the Russian novels, The Luzhin Defense and The Gift; from the English novels, Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire and Ada; the autobiographical Speak, Memory; translations of Alice in Wonderland into Russian and Eugene Onegin into English; and lectures on literature. All of the fiction and Speak, Memory are published in Penguin.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0141197161
• ISBN 13: 9780141197166
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 1088