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BEND SINISTER by NABOKOV VLADIMIR
32.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. His antagonist, ...Show more
Despair by Vladimir Nabokov
29.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with a man he believes to be his double reveals a frightening 'split' in Hermann's nature. With shattering immediacy, Nabokov takes us int ...Show more
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
31.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Takes us into the prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
35.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
This is a journey through madness and death resulting in stylized violence, narrated with irony and lyricism by Humbert himself. Lolita is also an acerbic and visionary portrait of the United States, its suburban horrors, and of motel and plastic culture.
Lolita (Clothbound Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
40.00 NZD
Category: Classics
The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. "The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very spec ...Show more
Lolita: Popular Penguins by Vladimir Nabokov
16.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing. Almost fifty years a ...Show more
Mary by Vladimir Nabokov
29.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Lev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian emigres. Alone in his room, he dreams of his first love, Mary. Awash with memories of youth and idyllic scenes of pre-Revolution Russia, Ganin becomes convinced that Mary is in fact the wife of a fellow-boarder, due t ...Show more
Novellas: The Eye; The Enchanter; The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov
45.00 NZD
Category: Classics
In "The Eye", a fussily self-conscious Russian tutor shoots himself after a humiliating beating by his mistress' husband. There follows a satirical detective story and a wonderfully layered exploration of identity, appearance and the loss of self in a world of word-play and confusion. Nabokov described ...Show more
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, with its wildly original narrative structure, is a postmodern masterpiece from the author of Lolita, skewering the politics of academia, the struggle for interpretation, and the infinite subjectivity of human experience, published in Penguin Modern Classics. The American po ...Show more
The Enchanter by Vladimir Nabokov
29.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Nabokov described this novella, written in Paris in 1939 but only published twenty years later, as 'the first little throb of Lolita'. The plot is similar: a middle-aged man wedding an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her daughter. However, "The Enchanter" has an utt ...Show more
The Eye by Vladimir Nabokov
29.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Set in Berlin in the late 1920s, this novel follows the narrator in his pursuit of the real identity of Smurow who, like the narrator himself, puts in a regular appearance among a circle of acquaintances. As each person he meets reflects a different Smurow, so Smurow seems to change in character.
The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
35.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Gift" is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. This gorgeous tapestry of literature and butterflies tells the story of Fyodor's pursuits as a writer. Its heroine is not Fy ...Show more