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

The Enchanter written by Vladimir Nabokov performed by Christopher Lane on CD (Unabridged)£9.99

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.

Selected Poems written by Vladimir Nabokov performed by Christopher Lane on CD (Abridged)

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ISBN:  9781441873583
Genre - Main:  Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Poetry
Duration:  263 mins
Length:  Abridged
Author:  Vladimir Nabokov
Narrator 1:  Christopher Lane

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Though we know Vladimir Nabokov as a brilliant novelist, his first love was poetry. This landmark collection brings together the best of his verse, including many pieces that have never before appeared in English.

These poems span the whole of Nabokov’s career, from the newly discovered “Music,” written in 1914, to the short, playful “To Véra,” composed in 1974. Many are newly translated by Dmitri Nabokov, including The University Poem, a sparkling novel in verse modeled on Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin that constitutes a significant new addition to Nabokov’s oeuvre. Included too are such poems as “Lilith”, an early work which broaches the taboo theme revisited nearly forty years later in Lolita, and “An Evening of Russian Poetry”, a masterpiece in which Nabokov movingly mourns his lost language in the guise of a versified lecture on Russian delivered to college girls.

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