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Lance by Vladimir Nabokov
$3.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
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.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? . . . Or is he all of these?
Lolita: Popular Penguins by Vladimir Nabokov
$16.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing. Almost fifty years a ...Show more
Nabokov's Dozen by Vladimir Nabokov
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithThirteen ingeniously crafted stories make up Vladimir Nabokov's baker's dozen. In some of these stories shadowy ...Show more
Nabokov's Dozen - Thirteen Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
$23.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
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 ca ...Show more
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, with its wildly original narrative structure, is a postmodern masterpiece from the author of Lolita, skewering the politics of academia, the struggle for interpretation, and the infinite subjectivity of human experience, published in Penguin Modern Classics. The American po ...Show more
The Original of Laura: (Dying is Fun) a Novel in Fragments by Vladimir Nabokov
$60.00 NZD
Category: No Category
This legendary novel has been the source of much anxiety and contention for Nabokov's fans - and family. The late Vladimir Nabokov requested that this unfinished work be destroyed, but his son, Dmitri, did not oblige, although neither did he allow the work to be published - until now. "The Original of L ...Show more
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov; Brian Boyd (Editor); Anastasia Tolstoy (Editor)
$24.89 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordina ...Show more
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