num_pages: 864
description: GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. Vra Slonim shared his delight at the enchantment of life's trifles and literature's treasures and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humour of any woman he had met. From their meeting in 1921 Vladimir's letters to his beloved Vra form a narrative arc that tells a forty-six year-long love story and they are memorable in their entirety. Almost always playful romantic and pithy the letters tell us much about the man and the writer; we see that Vladimir observed everything from animals faces speech and landscapes with genuine fascination.
language: English
title: Letters to Vera
publisher: Penguin Classics