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Despair

Nabokov, Vladimir
Heftet / 2000 / Engelsk

Product details

ISBN
9780141184548
Published
2000-11-30
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd; Penguin Classics
Weight
134 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
130 mm
Thickness
11 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
176

Author
Nabokov, Vladimir

Biographical note

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.

Despair

Nabokov, Vladimir
Heftet / 2000 / Engelsk
Nabokov, Vladimir
Heftet / 2000 / Engelsk
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Product details

ISBN
9780141184548
Published
2000-11-30
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd; Penguin Classics
Weight
134 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
130 mm
Thickness
11 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
176

Author
Nabokov, Vladimir

Biographical note

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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