A Russian beauty and other stories

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

McGraw-Hill, 1973 - Fiction - 268 pages

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User Review  - Marse - LibraryThing

This book reminded me a a little of "Invitation to a Beheading" because of the nightmarish, inescapable feeling of doom throughout the story. However, while "Invitiation" had a kind of Alice-in ...

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One thing I find hardest to do is blast a novel by a well-known, widely-admired, great writer. So I struggle to write this review of Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov. I read this novel long before I ...

About the author

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nobokov was born April 22, 1899 in St. Petersburg, Russia to a wealthy family. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge. When he left Russia, he moved to Paris and eventually to the United States in 1940. He taught at Wellesley College and Cornell University. Nobokov is revered as one of the great American novelists of the 20th Century. Before he moved to the United States, he wrote under the pseudonym Vladimir Serin. Among those titles, were Mashenka, his first novel and Invitation to a Beheading. The first book he wrote in English was The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. He is best know for his work Lolita which was made into a movie in 1962. In addition to novels, he also wrote poetry and short stories. Nabokov died July 2, 1977.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Russian beauty and other stories
• Author: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1973
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Mar 10, 2008
• ISBN: 0070457352, 9780070457355
• Length: 268 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Soviet Union