Lectures On Literature
$40.00
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
28 November 2002
Summary
The acclaimed author of Lolita offers unique insight into works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, and others—with an introduction by John Updike.
In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov’s teaching, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, as he introduced undergraduates t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780156027755 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0156027755 |
| Author: | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin |
| Imprint: | Houghton Mifflin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 28 November 2002 |
| Weight: | 338g |
| Dimensions: | 205mm x 138mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Harvest Book |
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About The Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born poet, novelist, literary critic, translator, and essayist was awarded the National Medal for Literature for his life’s work in 1973. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. He is the author of many works including Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada, and Speak, Memory.
John Updike is the author of numerous books, including the acclaimed “Rabbit” novels, Couples, In the Beauty of the Lilies, and Bech at Bay. He has won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1998 he received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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