Vladimir Nabokov, his life, his work, his world : a tribute / edited by Peter Quennell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Quennell, Peter, 1905-1993, editor.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich.

Authors, Russian--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Russian.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Local Subjects:

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 139 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Edition:

[First U.S. edition.].

Other Title:

Vladimir Nabokov a tribute

Place of Publication:

New York : William Morrow and Company, Inc., [1980]

Contents:

The novelist's world / Peter Quennell

Remembering Nabokov / Alfred Appel Jnr.

Mister Nabokov / Hannah Green

Under cover of decadence / John Bayley

Nabokov's uses of pattern / Alex de Jonge

The sublime and the ridiculous / Martin Amis

Nabokov: Homo Ludens / Mark Lilly

Ada, or the Perils of paradise / Robert Alter

The last interview / Robert Robinson

On revisiting father's room / Dmitri Nabokov.

Notes:

"Orginally published in Great Britain in 1979 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-139).

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1980".

Other Format:

Online version: Vladimir Nabokov, his life, his work, his world.

ISBN:

0688036376

9780688036379

OCLC:

5992279