num_pages: 222
description: Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder.
language: English
title: Despair
titlecomplete: Despair
characters: Hermann Karlovich, Lydia Karlovich
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Russian Literature, Russia, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 9755
places: Prague (Praha), Berlin
publisher: Paragon Books