Collected Poems
$22.37
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
24 July 2013
Summary
A landmark collection of verse from one of the twentieth century’s supreme writers. These masterly poems span the decades of Nabokov’s career, from ‘Music’, written in 1914, to the short, playful ‘To Vera’, composed in 1974. ‘The University Poem’, one of Nabokov’s major poetic works, is here in English for the first time—an extraordinary autobiographical poem looking back at his time at Cambridge, with its dinners, girls and memories, it is suffused with rich description, wit and verbal dexte…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141192260 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141192267 |
| Author: | Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 24 July 2013 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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The poems are coy, clever, sophisticated, sonorous and worldly. In other words, Nabokovian
The poems are coy, clever, sophisticated, sonorous and worldly. In other words, Nabokovian * New York Daily News *
About The Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even ‘God’s own novelist’ (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.
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