Description: Collected Poems by Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov Features a collection of Nabokovs poems span the decades of his career, from Music, written in 1914, to the short, playful To Vera, composed in 1974. this title also includes verse written on America, lepidoptery, sport, and love. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A landmark collection of verse from one of the twentieth centurys supreme writersThese masterly poems span the decades of Nabokovs career, from Music, written in 1914, to the short, playful To Vera, composed in 1974. The University Poem, one of Nabokovs major poetic works, is here in English for the first time- an extraordinary autobiographical poem looking back at his time at Cambridge, with its dinners, girls and memories, it is suffused with rich description, wit and verbal dexterity. Included too are the surreally comic A Literary Dinner, the enchanting, Eve, the wryly humorous An Evening of Russian Poetry and a meditation on the act of creation, Tolstoy, as well as verse written on America, lepidoptery, sport, love and Nabokovs Russian homeland. Notes A collection of verse from one of the 20th centurys supreme writers, including some poems that have never appeared in English before, translated by the late Dmitri Nabokov, Vladimirs son. Author Biography Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even Gods own novelist (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics. Review The poems are coy, clever, sophisticated, sonorous and worldly. In other words, Nabokovian * New York Daily News * Promotional Vladimir Nabokov is acknowledged as one of the greatest prose stylists of the twentieth century, but his first love was poetry. This collection brings together the best of Nabokovs masterly verse. Review Text The poems are coy, clever, sophisticated, sonorous and worldly. In other words, Nabokovian Review Quote The poems are coy, clever, sophisticated, sonorous and worldly. In other words, Nabokovian Promotional "Headline" Vladimir Nabokov is acknowledged as one of the greatest prose stylists of the twentieth century, but his first love was poetry. This collection brings together the best of Nabokovs masterly verse. Details ISBN0141192267 Author Dmitri Nabokov Pages 256 Language English Translator Dmitri Nabokov ISBN-10 0141192267 ISBN-13 9780141192260 Format Paperback Imprint Penguin Classics Year 2013 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 891.7142 Birth 1899 Death 1977 Media Book Translated from Russian UK Release Date 2013-08-01 Publication Date 2013-08-01 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Series Penguin Modern Classics Alternative 9780141939704 Audience General NZ Release Date 2013-07-23 AU Release Date 2013-07-23 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:50983835;
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