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Letters to Vera / Vladimir Nabokov ; translated and edited by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd.

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Record Number 726538
ISBN 9780141192239 (hardback)
Author Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 author.
Title Letters to Vera / Vladimir Nabokov ; translated and edited by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd.
Publisher/Date London : Penguin Classics, 2014.
copyright2014.
Pagination etc. lxi, 797 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Contents note Translated from the Russian.
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Note No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. Vera Slonim shared his delight at the enchantment of life's trifles and literature's treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humour of any woman he had met. From their meeting in 1921, Vladimir's letters to his beloved Vera form a narrative arc that tells a forty-six year-long love story, and they are memorable in their entirety. Almost always playful, romantic, and pithy, the letters tell us much about the man and the writer; we see that Vladimir observed everything, from animals, faces, speech, and landscapes with genuine fascination.
Subject - Name Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, -- 1899-1977 -- Correspondence
Nabokova, Vera -- Correspondence
Added Author Voronina, Olga translator,
editor.
Boyd, Brian, 1952 -, 1952- editor.
translator, 1952 -,
Shelf Location 816 NABO
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