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Despair / a novel by Vladimir Nabokov.
LIBRA PG3476.N3 O83 1989 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
- Series:
- Vintage International (Series)
- Vintage international
- Standardized Title:
- Otchai͡anīe. English
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Russian fiction--Translations into English.
- Russian fiction.
- Genre:
- Translations.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 212 pages, 14 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Vintage International Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., [1989]
- Language Note:
- Translation of: Otchai͡anīe.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- "First Vintage International Edition, May 1989."
- "Originally published, in hardover, by the Putnam Publishing Group, Inc., New York, in 1966."
- Publisher's advertisements: [6] p. at end.
- Translation of: Отчаяние.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Otchai͡anīe. English. Despair.
- ISBN:
- 0679723439 :
- 9780679723431
- OCLC:
- 18985650
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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