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Vladimir Nabokov
Includes sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy that display a range of inventiveness, with fairy tales, intellectual games and glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss.
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Takes us into the prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come.
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Dmitri Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov’s rise from impoverished World War II refugee to literary giant is recorded in this volume of more than 400 letters. Opening with an eloquent introduction by Vladimir’s son…
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Dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz.
A novella in which a middle-aged man weds an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her daughter.
Dr Philip Wild, a man of brilliance, wit, fortune and tremendous bulk, is used to suffering humiliations at the hands of his wife, the younger, slender, and rudely promiscuous Flora…
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Linking various minor events, this work switches back-and-forth producing an illusion of impetus.
Features a collection of Nabokov’s poems span the decades of his career, from ‘Music’, written in 1914, to the short, playful ‘To Vera’, composed in 1974. this title also includes…
Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time was the first modern Russian novel. Published in 1840, it set a model of penetrating observation and psychological depth that would come to…
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Richard E. Cytowic,David M. Eagleman, Ph.D.
How the extraordinary multisensory phenomenon of synesthesia has changed our traditional view of the brain.
