Nabokov's Dozen
by Vladimir Nabokov
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Thirteen strangely wrought stories make up Nabokov's baker's dozen.In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, mangled by it, with nowhere to escape to. Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lurk in all the corners.Tags
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I've rarely read a book so skilfully written, yet so unengaging overall.
A collection of semi-autobiographical stories. Nabokov has a wonderful sense of words, Fowler says "perhaps the most dazzling prose ever written in English", and an incredible vocabulary (Nabokov is said to abhor an abrdiged dictionary!). Wonderful memories, neat twists, and fantastically descriptive language throughout.
Book Description: Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1977. Fine in tan leather boards. Bright gilt embossed lettering and illustrations to the panels and spine. Four raised bands to the spine. Bright gilt to the page ends. Numerous full page illustrations by Keely. Original reading ribbon bound in. 270 pp.
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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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- Canonical title*
- Lente in Fialta
- Original title
- Nabokov's dozen : thirteen stories
- Alternate titles*
- Spring in Fialta
- Original publication date
- 1958
- First words
- Spring in Fialta is cloudy and dull.
- Quotations
- Mademoiselle ... would open the copybook to make a margin in it; ... the book would be briskly twisted around and placed before me ready for use. A new pen followed: she would moisten the glistening nib with susurrous lips be... (show all)fore dipping it into the baptismal ink font. Then ... with exquisite care I would inscribe the word Dictee ...
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- English; Russian; French
- Disambiguation notice
- "Spring in Fialta" is the title of one of the thirteen short stories in Nabokov's Dozen — as well as the title, under which this collection was published in some other languages. In some cases, combining Spring in... (show all) Fialta with Nabokov's Dozen is appropriate, but be careful, because Весна в Фиалте [Spring in Fialta] is the title of Nabokov's last collection of stories in Russian, which has nothing to do with Nabokov's Dozen except that they both include the story "Spring in Fialta."
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