Collected Poems by Vladimir Nabokov
These masterly poems span the decades of Nabokov's career, from 'Music', written in 1914, to the short, playful 'To Vera', composed in 1974. 'The University Poem', one of Nabokov's major poetic works, is here in English for the first time: an extraordinary autobiographical poem looking back at his time at Cambridge, with its dinners, girls and memories, it is suffused with rich description, wit and verbal dexterity. Included too are the surreally comic 'A Literary Dinner', the enchanting, 'Eve', the wryly humorous 'An Evening of Russian Poetry' and a meditation on the act of creation, 'Tolstoy', as well as verse written on America, lepidoptery, sport, love and Nabokov's Russian homeland.-
Of Mice and Men
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The Great Gatsby
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East of Eden
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A Month in the Country
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Giovanni's Room
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In Cold Blood
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Animal Farm
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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An Inspector Calls and Other Plays
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Alone in Berlin
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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The Grapes of Wrath
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The Man in the High Castle
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On the Road
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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The Haunting of Hill House
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Lolita
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Brideshead Revisited
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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A Clockwork Orange
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Orientalism
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Ways of Seeing
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
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The Crucible
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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Tokyo Express
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Death of a Salesman
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The Wretched of the Earth
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Things Fall Apart
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The Lonely Londoners
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Dubliners
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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The Night Manager
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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The Myth of Sisyphus
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Mrs Dalloway
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Caliban and the Witch
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The Road to Wigan Pier
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Homage to Catalonia
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Ulysses
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The Go-between
The poems are coy, clever, sophisticated, sonorous and worldlyIn other words, Nabokovian * New York Daily News *
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 | 9780141192260 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141192267 |
| Title | Collected Poems |
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Series | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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