Vladimir Nabokov - Böcker

'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis, Observer Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of...

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* Över 50 miljoner sålda exemplar »Lyckliga du, som ännu har läsupplevelsen framför dig: så är det förstås inte. Lolita är helt enkelt en av nittonhundratalets litterära milstolpar, formmässigt fulländad, tematiskt angelägen och idémässigt nyskapa...

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The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, in...

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'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis, Observer Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of...

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Efter ryska revolutionen har tjugotvåårige Martin Edelweiss, via Krim och Grekland, kommit till Cambridge. Han hänger sig åt studier och sällskapsliv, och njuter av de möjligheter som miljön erbjuder. Men hans kärlek till den unga Sonia blir olyck...

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Mästerliga tidiga verk för första gången i samlad volym Vladimir Nabokov är en av litteraturhistoriens stora språkbytare. Han skrev sina första nio romaner på ryska, i relativ obemärkthet, och växlade sedan till engelska och blev världsberömd, int...

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Blek låga¿ är den intrikate romanbyggaren Vladimir Nabokovs kanske mest intrikata roman. Till det yttre är den en kommenterad utgåva av en 999 rader lång dikt av den amerikanske poeten John Shade, som nyligen gått bort. Hans granne och kollega Cha...

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A beautiful work of art - Nabokov was such a master at both prose and poetry. This unique blend of prose and poetry offers a delightful sojourn to cherish.

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* Över 50 miljoner sålda exemplar * 4:a på Modern Librarys lista över 1900-talets bästa engelskspråkiga romaner * Aris Fioretos lysande översättning för första gången i inbunden utgåva, med Nabokovs eget förord och ett efterord av översättaren Lol...

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'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relatio...

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Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world: the ruination of his beautiful lumber-room-as...

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An autobiographical volume which recounts the story of Nabokov's first forty years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War Two. It tells of his emergence as a writer, his early loves and his marriage, and his passion...

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Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition 'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, ...

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Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since. His strange tales, though often read as forceful demands for social change, were displa...

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'A great work of art, radiant and rapturous, affirming the power of love and imagination' The New York Times Book Review Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a ...

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Vladimir Nabokov's early novel is the dazzling story of the coarse, strange yet oddly endearing chess-playing genius Luzhin. Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of International Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical ...

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy!' A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah and the Devil disguised as a middle-aged woman appear in these playful, ex...

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'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis, ObserverPoet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of ...

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Mästerliga tidiga verk för första gången i samlad volym Vladimir Nabokov är en av litteraturhistoriens stora språkbytare. Han skrev sina första nio romaner på ryska, i relativ obemärkthet, och växlade sedan till engelska och blev världsberömd, int...

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Blek låga är den intrikate romanbyggaren Vladimir Nabokovs kanske mest intrikata roman. Till det yttre är den en kommenterad utgåva av en 999 rader lång dikt av den amerikanske poeten John Shade, som nyligen gått bort. Hans granne och kollega Char...

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Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the best-known novels of the 20th century: the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in love with twelve year old Lolita, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'Lolita, light...

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Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongu...

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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, doe...

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Vladimir Nabokovs förord till Lolita . Om Lolita : Lolita är historien om hur den medelålders pedofilen Humbert Humbert dyrkar, exploaterar och utnyttjar den tolvåriga flickan Dolores Haze. Humbert Humbert berättar själv, innefrån fängelsecellen, ...

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A fastidiously shaped series of lectures based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the Spanish classic. Rejecting the common interpretation of Don Quixote as a warm satire, Nabokov perceives the work as a catalog of cruelty through which the gaunt...

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'The illegible signature of teetering disaster' Three great stories--The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance--the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the real pain and horror that would accompany space travel...

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Written in Berlin in 1934, Invitation to a Beheading contains all the surprise, excitement and magical intensity of a work created in two brief weeks of sustained inspiration. It takes us into the fantastic prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man conde...

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Albinus - rich, married middle-aged and respectable - is an art critic and aspiring filmmaker who lusts after the coquettish young cinema usherette Margot. Gradually he seduces her and convinces himself he is irresistible to her, but Margot has ot...

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