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Vladimir Nabokov : Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951 : The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Bend Sinister, Speak, Memory (Library of America) Hardcover - 1996
by Vladimir Nabokov; Brian Boyd [Editor]
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- Title Vladimir Nabokov : Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951 : The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Bend Sinister, Speak, Memory (Library of America)
- Author Vladimir Nabokov; Brian Boyd [Editor]
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Printing
- Condition New
- Pages 734
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Library of America, New York
- Date 1996-10-01
- Features Dust Cover
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1883011183_new
- ISBN 9781883011185 / 1883011183
- Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
- Dimensions 8.15 x 5.24 x 1.22 in (20.70 x 13.31 x 3.10 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96015257
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the rear cover
After a brilliant literary career writing in Russian, Vladimir Nabokov emigrated to the United States in 1940 and went on to an even more brilliant one in English. Between 1939 and 1974 he wrote the autobiography and eight novels now collected by The Library of America in an authoritative three-volume set, earning a place as one of the greatest writers of America, his beloved adopted home. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the first novel Nabokov wrote in English, is a tantalizing literary mystery in which a writer's half brother searches to unravel the enigma of the life of the famous author of Albinos in Black, The Back of the Moon, and The Doubtful Asphodel. Bend Sinister (1947), Nabokov's most explicitly political novel, is the haunting, dreamlike story of Adam Krug, a quiet philosophy professor caught up in the bureaucratic bungling of a totalitarian police state. Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (1951; revised 1966), Nabokov's dazzling memoir of his childhood in imperial Russia and exile in Europe, is central to an understanding of his art. The texts of this volume incorporate Nabokov's penciled corrections in his own copies of his works and correct long-standing errors. They are the most authoritative versions available and have been prepared with the assistance of Dmitri Nabokov, the novelist's son, and Brian Boyd, Nabokov's award-winning biographer, who has also contributed notes and a detailed chronology of the author's life based on new research.
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- Library Journal, 10/15/1996, Page 94