King, Queen, Knave
$31.02
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
2 May 2001
Summary
Brimming with wordplay, games, and curious characters—including an eccentric inventor of robotic ‘automannequins’—King, Queen, Knave is a sensual and surprising black comedy.
“Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest,” Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual, and cerebral, it 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 b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141185774 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141185775 |
| Author: | Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 2 May 2001 |
| Weight: | 215g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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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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