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- Selected Letters, 1940-1977 (1989)
EN HC USISBN: 9780151641901 bzw. 0151641900, in Englisch, Harcourt, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Versandkosten nach: USA.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Dr. Bookman - All Books Shipped in Cardboard.
1E: Harcourt. New in Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0151641900 . This specific book is in new/unread condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges/corners and a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in fine condition with only the slightest bit of cover or edge wear. This is a remarkable book and is in new condition. ; This book is of true importance because it allows us to see the true face of a master manipulator of our time. Even more important, however, it is an object lesson in the absolute devotion a human being can give to literature, to aesthetic insight, as justifications of existence, and perhaps the most valid. ; 1.9 x 9.3 x 6.2 Inches; 582 pages .
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Dr. Bookman - All Books Shipped in Cardboard.
1E: Harcourt. New in Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0151641900 . This specific book is in new/unread condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges/corners and a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in fine condition with only the slightest bit of cover or edge wear. This is a remarkable book and is in new condition. ; This book is of true importance because it allows us to see the true face of a master manipulator of our time. Even more important, however, it is an object lesson in the absolute devotion a human being can give to literature, to aesthetic insight, as justifications of existence, and perhaps the most valid. ; 1.9 x 9.3 x 6.2 Inches; 582 pages .
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Selected Letters 1940-1977
EN USISBN: 0151641900 bzw. 9780151641901, in Englisch, Harcourt, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Lagernd.
biographies,education and reference,literature and fiction,memoirs,world literature, Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940-1977, If Vladimir Nabokov's fiction merits any criticism, it is for its iciness. The master himself declared in a 1977 BBC interview, "My characters cringe as I come near them with my whip. I have seen a whole avenue of imagined trees losing their leaves at the threat of my passage." Nabokov's correspondence, however, reveals a far warmer individual, though one ever-ready with a verbal shiv. This volume begins with a 1923 letter to his mother, written while he was a farmhand in the French Alps, and ends with a 1977 letter sent to his wife, Vera, for Mother's Day: "My dearest, your roses, your fragrant rubies, glow red against a background of spring rain..." Nabokov's son, Dmitri, and Matthew Bruccoli have created the fullest, and by far the most amusing, portrait of the serious artist as trickster. There's the famous letter to Burma-Vita, in which Nabokov offers the company an advertising jingle (alas, they turned him down). There's the best, and most amusing, account of "l'affaire Lolita." Here is his response to his New Yorker editor, Katharine White: "Let me thank you very warmly for your frank and charming letter about LOLITA. But after all how many are the memorable literary characters whom we would like our teen-age daughters to meet? Would you like our Patricia to go on a date with Othello? Would we like our Mary to read the New Testament temple against temple with Raskolnikov? Would we like our sons to marry Emma Rouault, Becky Sharp or La belle dame SA.
biographies,education and reference,literature and fiction,memoirs,world literature, Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940-1977, If Vladimir Nabokov's fiction merits any criticism, it is for its iciness. The master himself declared in a 1977 BBC interview, "My characters cringe as I come near them with my whip. I have seen a whole avenue of imagined trees losing their leaves at the threat of my passage." Nabokov's correspondence, however, reveals a far warmer individual, though one ever-ready with a verbal shiv. This volume begins with a 1923 letter to his mother, written while he was a farmhand in the French Alps, and ends with a 1977 letter sent to his wife, Vera, for Mother's Day: "My dearest, your roses, your fragrant rubies, glow red against a background of spring rain..." Nabokov's son, Dmitri, and Matthew Bruccoli have created the fullest, and by far the most amusing, portrait of the serious artist as trickster. There's the famous letter to Burma-Vita, in which Nabokov offers the company an advertising jingle (alas, they turned him down). There's the best, and most amusing, account of "l'affaire Lolita." Here is his response to his New Yorker editor, Katharine White: "Let me thank you very warmly for your frank and charming letter about LOLITA. But after all how many are the memorable literary characters whom we would like our teen-age daughters to meet? Would you like our Patricia to go on a date with Othello? Would we like our Mary to read the New Testament temple against temple with Raskolnikov? Would we like our sons to marry Emma Rouault, Becky Sharp or La belle dame SA.
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Selected Letters, 1940-1977 (1989)
EN HC USISBN: 9780151641901 bzw. 0151641900, in Englisch, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, San Diego, CA, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, zzgl. Versandkosten, Verandgebiet: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, omgtextbooks, CO, Pueblo, [RE:4].
Hard cover.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, omgtextbooks, CO, Pueblo, [RE:4].
Hard cover.
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Selected Letters 1940
EN HC USISBN: 9780151641901 bzw. 0151641900, in Englisch, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, zzgl. Versandkosten, Verandgebiet: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Powell's Books, OR, Portland, [RE:5].
Hardcover.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Powell's Books, OR, Portland, [RE:5].
Hardcover.
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