Insomniac Dreams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Insomniac Dreams write by Vladimir Nabokov. This book was released on 2019-11-19. Insomniac Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First publication of an index-card diary in which Nabokov recorded sixty-four dreams and subsequent daytime episodes, allowing the reader a glimpse of his innermost life.
Strong Opinions
Strong Opinions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strong Opinions write by Vladimir Nabokov. This book was released on 1990-03-17. Strong Opinions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Strong Opinions offers Nabokov's trenchant, witty, and always engaging views on everything from the Russian Revolution to the correct pronunciation of Lolita. • "First published in 1973, this collection of interviews and essays offers an intriguing insight into one of the most brilliant authors of the 20th century." - The Guardian Nabokov ranges over his life, art, education, politics, literature, movies, among other subjects. Keen to dismiss those who fail to understand his work and happy to butcher those sacred cows of the literary canon he dislikes, Nabokov is much too entertaining to be infuriating, and these interviews, letters and articles are as engaging, challenging and caustic as anything he ever wrote.
The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov write by Andrea Pitzer. This book was released on 2013-03-05. The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A startling and revelatory examination of Nabokov’s life and works—notably Pale Fire and Lolita—bringing new insight into one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic authors Novelist Vladimir Nabokov witnessed the horrors of his century, escaping Revolutionary Russia then Germany under Hitler, and fleeing France with his Jewish wife and son just weeks before Paris fell to the Nazis. He repeatedly faced accusations of turning a blind eye to human suffering to write artful tales of depravity. But does one of the greatest writers in the English language really deserve the label of amoral aesthete bestowed on him by so many critics? Using information from newly-declassified intelligence files and recovered military history, journalist Andrea Pitzer argues that far from being a proponent of art for art’s sake, Vladimir Nabokov managed to hide disturbing history in his fiction—history that has gone unnoticed for decades. Nabokov emerges as a kind of documentary conjurer, spending the most productive decades of his career recording a saga of forgotten concentration camps and searing bigotry, from World War I to the Gulag and the Holocaust. Lolita surrenders Humbert Humbert’s secret identity, and reveals a Nabokov appalled by American anti-Semitism. The lunatic narrator of Pale Fire recalls Russian tragedies that once haunted the world. From Tsarist courts to Nazi film sets, from CIA front organizations to wartime Casablanca, the story of Nabokov’s family is the story of his century—and both are woven inextricably into his fiction.
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle write by Vladimir Nabokov. This book was released on 2024-02-17. Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the superb work of an imagination at white heat. This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.
Despair
Despair - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Despair write by M.J. Haag. This book was released on . Despair available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Not everything is what it seems. In a desperate bid to free her twin sister from an evil caster, Kellen flees her sheltered life under the cover of darkness. Lost and on the run from the cursed beasts lurking in the Dark Forest, she stumbles upon a clearing where seven handsome men reside. Despite their wariness towards her, Kellen finds herself drawn to them. Their laughter, camaraderie, and the way they gaze at her awaken a longing she’s never known. Her intuition whispers that she must stay, yet her loyalty to her sister compels her to find a way to leave. To plot her escape and save her sister, Kellen will need to navigate the seductive charm of the seven men and her yearning for acceptance in this darker version of Snow White that’s as spell-binding as the seven hot and endearing men who hold her captive.
