Look at the harlequins! - Hardcover

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297768891 ISBN 13: 9780297768890

Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975

Synopsis

UK first edition in very good condition, with unclipped dust jacket in good condition for its age. From the collection of W.L. Webb, the Guardian's literary editor for many years, ownership penned to FEP. General shelf and handling wear, including tanning, creasing, chipping and wear to DJ cover, edges, corners and folds, notable to spine head. Wear to board edges, pageblock tanned and foxed, tanning leading into page edges. Within, pages are tightly bound, only occasional blemish noted, content generally unmarked. CN

About this title

From the Back Cover

Focusing on the central figures of his life--his four wives, his books, and his muse, Dementia--the book leads us to suspect that the fictions Vadim has created as an author have crossed the line between his life's work and his life itself, as the worlds of reality and literary invention grow increasingly indistinguishable.

About the Author

One of the twentieth century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.

Edition details

• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Publication date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0297768891
• ISBN 13: 9780297768890
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 253