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20%OFFVladimir Nabokov - King, Queen, Knave - 9780141185774 - V9780141185774
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King, Queen, Knave

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Description for King, Queen, Knave Paperback. Dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. Translator(s): Nabokov, Dmitri. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 196 x 22. Weight in Grams: 296.

'Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius' David Lodge

'Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. 'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' - Nabokov darts a glance to the reader - 'he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set here and there...

Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141185774
SKU
V9780141185774
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About Vladimir Nabokov
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 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in ... Read more

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