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Vladimir Nabokov
Dmitri Nabokov
ISBN: 9780141183459
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: New edition
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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.
A man at his desk is interrupted by the appearance of a woodland elf in his room; the piano maestro Bachmann ends his career; a barber shaves the face of a man who once tortured him; and, a shy dreamer makes a deal with the Devil. In these sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy, Nabokov displays an astonishing range of inventiveness, with dazzling sleight of hand, fantastical fairy tales, intellectual games and enchanting glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss. The collection displays Nabokov's astonishing range of technical and formal inventiveness: the dazzling sleight of hand, fanciful fairy tales, ingenious puzzles, enchanting vignettes and haunting melancholic narratives full of disturbing ambiguities.
| ISBN | 0141183454 | | Pages | 816 | | ISBN13 | 9780141183459
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 849 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Penguin Classics | | Series editor | Phillips, Adam, Phillips, Adam, Phillips, Adam | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Penguin Modern Classics | | Publication date | 22 Feb 2001 | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Translator | Dmitri Nabokov | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Writer of preface | Nabokov, Dimitri | | Spine width (mm) | 43 | | DEWEY | 813.54 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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