Transparent Things
$28.84
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2017
Summary
Nabokov’s lyrical and experimental novel, now part of this new Penguin Modern Classics series.
The darkly comic Transparent Things, one of Nabokov’s final books, traces the bleak life of Hugh Person through murder, madness, prison, and trips to Switzerland. One of these was the last journey his father ever took; on another, having been sent to ingratiate himself with a distinguished novelist, he met his future wife. Nabokov’s brilliant short novel sinks into the transparent t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141198040 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141198044 |
| Author: | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2017 |
| Weight: | 116g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 10mm |
| 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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