Authors: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN-13: 9780679727293, ISBN-10: 0679727299
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: May 1991
Edition: Revised and updated
Readers of Vladimir Nabokov's books might be slightly uncomfortable with them, were they not so awe-inspiring. Nabokov had a penchant for writing about the tragic and the taboo; but his erudite, inventive approach to narration -- buttressed by his formidable academic and cultural intellect -- made him a literary legend.
The annotated text of this modern classic. It assiduously illuminates the extravagant wordplay and the frequent literary allusions, parodies, and cross-references. Edited with a preface, introduction and notes by Alfred Appel, Jr.