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Nabokov described this novella, written in Paris in 1939 but only published twenty years later, as 'the first little throb of Lolita'. The plot is similar: a middle-aged man wedding an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her daughter.

Dispair written by Vladimir Nabokov performed by Christopher Lane on CD (Unabridged)

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ISBN: 9781441873224
Genre - Main: Fiction
Genre - Specific: Modern
Duration: 443 mins
Length: Unabridged
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Performer 1: Christopher Lane

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Hermann is a German chocolate manufacturer, who lives in bourgeois comfort with his pleasing but stupid Russian wife and her drunken cousin. On a business trip to Prague, Hermann stumbles across a man he believes to be his double and starts plotting to turn this encounter to his advantage.

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A master of characterisation, Charles Dickens introduces us to yet another memorable creation in the form of David Copperfield, the undisputed favourite of all his fictional children.

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