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BEND SINISTER by NABOKOV VLADIMIR
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. His antagonist, ...Show more
Collected Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
$60.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Written in inimitable prose, these 65 stories span Nabokov's extraordinary life and career. Arranged chronologically to illuminate his development as a writer, the collection displays Nabokov's range of technical and formal inventiveness.
Insomniac Dreams: Experiments With Time by Vladimir Nabokov; Gennady Barabtarlo (Commentaries by, Editor)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Nabokov's dream diary--published for the first time On October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions in An Experiment with Time by British philosopher John Du ...Show more
Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov
$50.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first time-and placed in biographical and literary contextOn October 14th, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions he found ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The story of Humbert Humbert, poet and pervert, and his obsession with 12-year-old Dolores Haze. Determined to possess his "Lolita" both carnally and artistically, Humbert embarks on a disastrous courtship that can only end in tragedy.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics
The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. "The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very spec ...Show more
Lolita: Popular Penguins by Vladimir Nabokov
$13.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing. Almost fifty years a ...Show more
Nabokov's Dozen by Vladimir Nabokov
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithThirteen ingeniously crafted stories make up Vladimir Nabokov's baker's dozen. In some of these stories shadowy ...Show more
Nabokov's Dozen - Thirteen Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, mangled by it, with nowhere to escape to. Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lurk in all the corners. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they ca ...Show more
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, with its wildly original narrative structure, is a postmodern masterpiece from the author of Lolita, skewering the politics of academia, the struggle for interpretation, and the infinite subjectivity of human experience, published in Penguin Modern Classics. The American po ...Show more
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart of campus America. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world.
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
$28.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
Speak, Memory, first published in 1947 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times--as it offers incisive insights into his major works.