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Nabokov's Dozen: Thirteen Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)

Nabokov's Dozen: Thirteen Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)

by VladimirNabokov (Author)

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Synopsis

Thirteen strangely wrought, ingeniously crafted stories make up Nabokov's baker's dozen. In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, with nowhere to escape to. Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lurk in all the corners. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they can be snatched, waylay their victims. Like the shimmer of the sea, the gleam of a glass caught by the sun, they sparkle brilliantly only to dissolve again.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 07 Sep 2017
ISBN 10: 024130248X
ISBN 13: 9780241302484
Book Overview: Thirteen strangely wrought stories make up Nabokov's baker's dozen.

Media Reviews
At their best they display a Lawrentian power of evocation, a Proustian depth of subtlty, sadness and loss * Sunday Times *
Author Bio
Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 in St Petersburg. He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most famously, Lolita. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian emigre writers. He died in 1977.