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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson; Dan Chaon (Afterword by); Vladímir Nabokov (Foreword by, Introduction by)
Category: Classics
Robert Louis Stevenson's thrilling tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and his evil double, Mr. Hyde, is one of the most famous horror stories in English literature. It is also a profound and fascinating fable of the divided self that continues to seize readers' imaginations. This story of a misguided ...Show more
Eugene Onegin - A Novel in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin; Vladímir Nabokov (Introduction by, Translator); Brian Boyd
Category: Gift | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
When Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov's friendship with critic Edmund Wilson. While Wilson derided it as a disappointment in the New York Review of Books, o ...Show more
Laughter in the Dark by Vladímir Nabokov
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic nov ...Show more
Letters to Véra by Vladímir Nabokov; Vera Nabokova; Brian Boyd
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The letters of the great writer to his wife--gathered here for the first time--chronicle a decades-long love story and document anew the creative energies of an artist who was always at work. No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov's to Vera Slon ...Show more
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