Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
3) Lolita
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English
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"Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze"--
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The Library of America volume 89
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
8) Pale fire
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English
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Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry, one-upmanship, and political intrigue.
9) Bleak house
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 67
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English
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"In Bleak House, competing claims of love and inheritance--complicated by murder--have given rise to a costly and decades-long legal battle that one litigant refers to as 'the family curse.' The insidious London fog that rises from the river Thames and seeps into the very bones of the characters symbolizes the pervasive corruption of the legal system and the society that supports it, targets of Dickens's satirical wrath."--P. [2] of cover.
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Азбука
Pub. Date
2015.
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Russian
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Vladimir Nabokov used to say:"My head speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, my ear - French." This collection includes three major Nabokov novels, written by him in Russian: The Defense (1929); Invitation to a beheading (1936); Lolita (1955, 1959).--Supplied by publisher.