Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
by Vladimir Nabokov
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Thirteen early stories of the Russian emigre master reveal the often lonely, forboding world of the exile.Tags
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Vladimir Nabokov is an author far beyond Lolita, his best known romance. In this 13 short narratives, he wrote as an young author and emigrant in Europe, Nabokov talks about loss and forces of chance in a poetic way. Very poetic reading.
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nobokov was born April 22, 1899 in St. Petersburg, Russia to a wealthy family. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge. When he left Russia, he moved to Paris and eventually to the United States in 1940. He taught at Wellesley College and Cornell University. Nobokov is revered as one of the great American novelists of the show more 20th Century. Before he moved to the United States, he wrote under the pseudonym Vladimir Serin. Among those titles, were Mashenka, his first novel and Invitation to a Beheading. The first book he wrote in English was The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. He is best know for his work Lolita which was made into a movie in 1962. In addition to novels, he also wrote poetry and short stories. He was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction seven times, but never won it. Nabokov died July 2, 1977. show less
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- Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
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- Russian
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- Contains: Details of a sunset.--A bad day.--Orache.--The return of Chorb.--The passenger.--A letter that never reached Russia.--A guide to Berlin.--The doorbell.--The thunderstorm.--The reunion.--A slice of life.--Christmas.-... (show all)-A busy man
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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- 891.7 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Russian and East Slavic languages
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- PZ3 .N121 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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