num_pages: 212
description: Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965 - thirty years after its original publication -Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann Karlovich, 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: Vintage