Vintage Nabokov
By: Vladimir Nabokov.
Series: Vintage readers
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Description: "Novelist, poet, critic, translator, and, above all, a peerless imaginer, Vladimir Nabokov was arguably the most dazzling prose stylist of the twentieth century. In novels like Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, he turned language into an instrument of ecstasy." "Vintage Nabokov includes sections 1-10 of his most famous and controversial novel, Lolita; the stories "The Return of Chorb," "The Aurelian," "A Forgotten Poet," "Time and Ebb," "Signs and Symbols," "The Vane Sisters," and "Lance"; and chapter twelve from his memoir Speak, Memory."--Jacket.
Notes: "A Vintage original"--T.p. verso
Table of contents: title: "The return of Chorb" from The stories of Vladimir Nabokov; title: "The Aurelian" from The stories of Vladimir Nabokov; title: "Russian spoken here" from The stories of Vladimir Nabokov; title: "Cloud, castle, lake" from The stories of Vladimir Nabokov; title: "Mademoiselle O" from The stories of Vladimir Nabokov; title: Selection from Lolita; title: "A forgotten poet" from The stories of Vladimir Nabokov; title: "Time and ebb" from The stories of Vladimir Nabokov; title: "Signs and symbols" from The stories of Vladimir Nabokov; title: "The Vane sisters" from The stories of Vladimir Nabokov; title: "Lance" from The stories of Vladimir Nabokov; title: Chapter twelve from Speak, memory.