Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov

Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov

'Berlin-west, a morning in May.'

An aspiring young Berlin actress turns the tables on her lustful middle-aged admirer, in Nabokov's deadpan, deliciously cruel story of hopeless infatuation and horribly inventive revenge.

"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written that is, a ecstatically" —John Updike

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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ISBN 13	9780241261248
ISBN 10	0241261244
Title	Laughter in the Dark
Author	Vladimir Nabokov
Series	Pocket Penguins
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2016-11-03
Number of pages	208
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