Nabokov S Butterfly And Other Stories Of Great Authors And Rare Books
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Nabokov S Butterfly Other Stories Of Great Authors And Rare Books
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Author : R. A. Gekoski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Nabokov S Butterfly Other Stories Of Great Authors And Rare Books written by R. A. Gekoski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with American literature categories.
Nabokov S Butterfly And Other Stories Of Great Authors And Rare Books
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Author : R. A. Gekoski
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 2004
Nabokov S Butterfly And Other Stories Of Great Authors And Rare Books written by R. A. Gekoski and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A collector of rare books shares his personal experiences with twenty important volumes and other literary items, including a signed copy of Sylvia Plath's The Colossus, a copy of Nabokov's Lolita from Graham Greene, and the sale of J. R. R. Tolkien's college gown.
Nabokov S Butterfly
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Author : Rick Gekoski
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 2006-06-22
Nabokov S Butterfly written by Rick Gekoski and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-22 with History categories.
A first edition of Ulysses sold for 460,000 in auction at Christie's in 2002. The price might have upset the union chief, convicted gangster, and major-league James Joyce book collector Dennis Silverman, who had sold his copy, signed and inscribed by the author, for a mere 135,000 ten years earlier. Great books attract all kinds and come to fascinating destinies of their own, as Nabokov's Butterfly amply demonstrates. Here, noted author and rare book dealer Rick Gekoski — whose vocation led to the BBC radio series titled Rare Books, Rare People, — profiles twenty editions of major books that have passed through his hands and made publishing history, as they have become the legends of rare book collectors. Sued by J. D. Salinger, harassed by Harold Pinter, berated by Ted Hughes who unloaded his personal and passionately inscribed copy of Sylvia Plath's The Colossus, Gekoski is a convivial participant in these histories, including his sale of Mr. Tolkien's college gown. He recalls one day purchasing from Graham Greene his first edition of Lolita, with Nabokov's signature drawing of a butterfly inside, and on the next day he sold it to Elton John's lyricist at a 10,000 profit.
Rare Books Uncovered
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Author : Rebecca Rego Barry
language : en
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
Release Date : 2018-02-27
Rare Books Uncovered written by Rebecca Rego Barry and has been published by Voyageur Press (MN) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-27 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
"Discoveries of rare and collectible books are chronicled in stories from both casual and die-hard book collectors" --
A Splendid Ecstasy
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Author : Emma S. Etuk Ph. D.
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2010-04-20
A Splendid Ecstasy written by Emma S. Etuk Ph. D. and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-20 with categories.
The Stories Of Vladimir Nabokov
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Author : Vladimir Nabokov
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-02-16
The Stories Of Vladimir Nabokov written by Vladimir Nabokov and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-16 with Fiction categories.
From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time--display all the shades of Nabokov's imagination. They range from sprightly fables to bittersweet tales of loss, from claustrophobic exercises in horror to a connoisseur's samplings of the table of human folly. Read as a whole, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov offers and intoxicating draft of the master's genius, his devious wit, and his ability to turn language into an instrument of ecstasy.
Nabokov S Butterflies
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Author : Vladimir Nabokov
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
Release Date : 2000-05
Nabokov S Butterflies written by Vladimir Nabokov and has been published by Beacon Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Unpublished and Uncollected WritingsEdited and Annotated by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael PyleNew Translations from the Russian by Dmitri NabokovLiterature and Lepidoptera dance an elaborate pas de deux through seventy years of Vladimir Nabokov's life, from his boyhood in Russia to his life as an émigré in the Crimea, Berlin, France, the United States, and finally in Switzerland. An American literary giant, Nabokov also produced first-rate work as a scientist, and in his fiction and elsewhere eloquently advocated attention to the details of the natural world and promoted the delights of discovery.Nabokov's Butterflies presents Nabokov's twin passions through an astonishingly rich array of novels, stories, poems, screenplay, autobiography, criticism, lectures, articles, reviews, interviews, letters, and notes, plus a wealth of beautiful and fanciful drawings by Nabokov and photographs of him in the field.Here for the first time, newly translated from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov, is Nabokov's most intense amalgam of literature and Lepidoptera, his forty-page afterword to The Gift-cut short by his switch from Russian to English and from Europe to America at the midpoint of his life-an immensely rich and revealing work. Here too are scores of fascinating letters to his mother, wife, and colleagues; the sui generis scientific articles; "The Admirable Anglewing," an intriguing entomological tale; a taste of the prodigious work he expended on his ultimately unrealized Butterflies of Europe; and ten poems newly translated from the original Russian.Nabokov's Butterflies is a major literary event: not only in chronological scope but also in genre no other volume of Nabokov's writing encompasses such variety. It is, as Dmitri Nabokov claims, a book that "would have warmed the cockles of Father's heart," and a must-have for admirers of the great novelist and all who appreciate the joys of Lepidoptera.
A Russian Beauty And Other Stories
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Author : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
language : en
Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill
Release Date : 1973
A Russian Beauty And Other Stories written by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov and has been published by New York : McGraw-Hill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with RUSSIAN LITERATURE. categories.
Translations of thirteen stories reflect the author's personal and social interests between 1924 and 1940.
Details Of A Sunset And Other Stories
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Author : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Details Of A Sunset And Other Stories written by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.
Nabokov S Butterflies
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Author : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Nabokov S Butterflies written by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Butterflies categories.
Edited and Annotated by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle New Translations from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov This extraordinary verbal and visual feast of never-before-seen Nabokoviana presents the great writer's lifelong passions for literature and butterflies through a rich array of novels, stories, poems, autobiography, interviews, diaries, and more, plus a wealth of beautiful and fanciful drawings by Nabokov and photographs of him in the field.