num_pages: 385
description: For nearly twenty years, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures on 
  Mansfield Park
 by Jane Austen, 
  Bleak House
 by Charles Dickens, 
  Madame Bovary
 by Gustave Flaubert, 
  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 
 by Robert Louis Stevenson,
  Swann's Way
 by Marcel Proust, "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, and 
  Ulysses
 by James Joyce. Nabokov reveals how these masterpieces work; above all, he teaches us how to read them.Professor Fredson Bowers has edited the lectures from Nabokov's hand-written manuscripts ad teaching copies of his books, providing a text that evokes his distinctive classroom style and the brilliance of his personality. Introduction by John Updike; illustrations.
language: English
title: Lectures on Literature
titlecomplete: Lectures on Literature
genres: Writing, Theory, Books About Books, Nonfiction, Literature, Essays, Russian Literature, Criticism, Russia, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 2341
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism
publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich