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Speak, Memory
by Vladimir Nabokov

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Speak, memory' said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relati read more
Collected Stories
by Vladimir Nabokov

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Written in inimitable, magical prose, these sixty-five stories span Nabokov's extraordinary life and career. Arranged chronologically to illuminate his development as a writer, the collection displays Nabokov's astonishing range of t read more
Pnin
by Vladimir Nabokov

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Synopsis

Nabokov's comic masterpiece charts the wry, bizarre progress of Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, now precariously perched on a college campus in the fast-beating heart of the USA. A man of complex emotions, Pnin read more
Despair
by Vladimir Nabokov

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Synopsis

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 'spl read more
The Annotated Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov

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When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century.
This annotated edition, a revised and considerably expanded version of the 1970 edition, do read more
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov

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A novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death. The poem appears in full and the narrative develops through the lengthy, and increasingly eccentric, notes by his posthumous edito read more
Invitation To A Beheading
by Vladimir Nabokov

Price: ~~Rs.399~~ Rs.305
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Synopsis
Written in Berlin in 1934, Invitation to a Beheading contains all the surprise, excitement and magical intensity of a work created in two brief weeks of sustained inspiration. It takes us into the fantastic prison-world of Cincinnatus, read more
Bend Sinister
by Vladimir Nabokov

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Synopsis
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. O read more
The Gift
by Vladimir Nabokov

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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 tapesty of literature and butterflies tells read more
The Luzhin Defense
by Vladimir Nabokov

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Vladimir Nabokov's early novel is the dazzling story of the coarse, strange yet oddly endearing chess-playing genius Luzhin. Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of international Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical p read more
The Real Life Of Sebastian Knight
by Vladimir Nabokov

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Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman ('his slapdash and very misleading book'), the narrator, V, sets out to record Sebastian Knight's life as he understa read more
Laughter In The Dark
by Vladimir Nabokov

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Synopsis
In Berlin there lived a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable and happy but one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress he loved. He was not loved in return, however, and his life ended in disaster. The orig read more
The Original Of Laura
by Vladimir Nabokov

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A novel about a wonderfully large man called Philip Wild, married to a very promiscuous woman, and whose meditations concern the nature of death. read more
The Original of Laura: A Novel in Fragments
by Vladimir Nabokov

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About the Book: The Original of Laura: A Novel inFragments

Dr Philip Wild, a man of brilliance, wit, fortune andtremendousbulk, is used to suffering humiliations at the hands ofhis wife,the younger, slender, and rudely promiscuous Fl read more
The Tragedy of Mister Morn
by Vladimir Nabokov

Price: ~~Rs.699~~ Rs.529
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Key Features
- Nabokov's only play, newly translated and published in English for the first time
- The Tragedy of Mr Morn is an astonishingly precocious work, in which for the first time we see the major themes of this gre read more
Transparent Things
by Vladimir Nabokov

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About The Author:
About the Author
Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 in St Petersburg. He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, m read more
Invitation To A Beheading
by Vladimir Nabokov

Price: ~~Rs.573~~ Rs.440
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Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude." an imaginary crime that defies read more
Transparent Things
by Vladimir Nabokov

Price: ~~Rs.573~~ Rs.429
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"Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero--sullen, gawky Hugh Person--to Switzerland . . . As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a gri read more
The Luzhin Defense
by Vladimir Nabokov

Price: ~~Rs.573~~ Rs.437
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Nabokov's third novel, The Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up ches read more
The Real Life Of Sebastian Knight
by Vladimir Nabokov

Price: ~~Rs.573~~ Rs.439
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The real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story--subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax--about the mysterious life of a famous writer. read more