Vintage Nabokov / Vladimir Nabokov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Vintage readers

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. 2004

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories.

Genre:

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 199 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm.

Edition:

Vintage Original.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., [2004]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

"The return of Chorb" from The stories of Vladimir Nabokov

"The Aurelian" from The stories of Vladimir Nabokov

"Russian spoken here" from The stories of Vladimir Nabokov

"Cloud, castle, lake" from The stories of Vladimir Nabokov

"Mademoiselle O" from The stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Selection from Lolita

"A forgotten poet" from The stories of Vladimir Nabokov

"Time and ebb" from The stories of Vladimir Nabokov

"Signs and symbols" from The stories of Vladimir Nabokov

"The Vane sisters" from The stories of Vladimir Nabokov

"Lance" from The stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Chapter twelve from Speak, memory.

Notes:

"A Vintage Original, January 2004."--Title page verso.

Publisher's advertisements: [6] p. at end.

Other Format:

Online version: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Selections. 2004. Vintage Nabokov.

ISBN:

1400034019

9781400034017

OCLC:

52554352

Online:

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