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Tender Friendship and the Charm of Perfect Accord
Nabokov and His Father
E-bok, 2014
1198 kr
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), a writer of world renown, grew up in a culturally refined family with diverse interests. Nabokov’s father, Vladimir Dmitrievich (1870–1922), was a distinguished jurist and statesman at the turn of the twentieth century. He was also a great connoisseur and aficionado of …
Tender Friendship and the Charm of Perfect Accord
Nabokov and His Father
Inbunden, 2014
1054 kr
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), a writer of world renown, grew up in a culturally refined family with diverse interests. Nabokov’s father, Vladimir Dmitrievich (1870–1922), was a distinguished jurist and statesman at the turn of the twentieth century. He was also a great connoisseur and aficionado of …
Nabokov at Cornell
Inbunden, 2003
964 kr
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Vladimir Nabokov taught at Cornell University from 1948 to 1959. It was at Cornell that Nabokov composed Lolita and Pnin and conceived Pale Fire. During his Cornell tenure Nabokov also continued his research on lepidoptera, wrote the English and Russian versions of his autobiography, Conclusive …
Thanksgiving All Year Round
A Memoir
Inbunden, 2016
1080 kr
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This book first delves into the author’s ancestry, thereby providing a partial slice of Russian Jewish history. It then offers an individual perspective on what it meant to grow up in the Soviet Union in the aftermath of WWII. It also gives a personal account of the rise and development of Jewish …
Thanksgiving All Year Round
A Memoir
E-bok, 2016
2941 kr
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This book first delves into the author’s ancestry, thereby providing a partial slice of Russian Jewish history. It then offers an individual perspective on what it meant to grow up in the Soviet Union in the aftermath of WWII. It also gives a personal account of the rise and development of Jewish …
Thanksgiving All Year Round
A Memoir
Häftad, 2017
260 kr
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Thanksgiving All Year Round describes Gavriel Shapiro's eventful life, which spans over seventy years, in three different countries and on as many continents.This book first delves into Shapiro's ancestry, thereby providing a partial slice of Russian Jewish history and offers an individual …
Nearly Fifty Years and Counting
Selected Essays on Gogol and Nabokov
Inbunden, 2027
1174 kr
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Nearly Fifty Years and Counting comprises essays published in the United States and Europe between 1980 and 2026. Organized into two parts and grouped into six rubrics, the collection opens with five essays on Nikolai Gogol: the first illustrates his fascination with the Baroque, the next three …
Exploring Vladimir Nabokov’s Creative Universe
Themes and Devices
Inbunden, 2026
1304 kr
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Exploring Vladimir Nabokov’s Creative Universe offers a fresh perspective on certain aspects of Nabokov’s creative universe. The analysis begins with the writer’s faith, viewed as the bedrock of his ethics. Consequently, all other themes discussed in Part I, from moral dilemmas to cruelty to …
Exploring Vladimir Nabokov's Creative Universe
Themes and Devices
E-bok, 2026
1152 kr
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Exploring Vladimir Nabokovs Creative Universe offers a fresh perspective on certain aspects of Nabokovs creative universe. The analysis begins with the writers faith, viewed as the bedrock of his ethics. Consequently, all other themes discussed in Part I, from moral dilemmas to cruelty to animals, …
