Letters to Véra

Vladimir Nabokov, Olga Voronina, Brian Boyd , Olga Voronina

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PENGUIN GROUP USA
01 March 2016

Autobiography: literary; Diaries, letters & journals; Literature, Poetry & Criticism

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

Vladimir Nabokov's letters to his beloved wife, translated and edited by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd

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.

By: Vladimir Nabokov
Edited by: Olga Voronina, Brian Boyd
Translated by: Olga Voronina, Brian Boyd
Imprint: PENGUIN GROUP USA
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume:
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 49mm
Weight: 645g
ISBN: 9780141192246
ISBN 10: 0141192240
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 864
Publication Date: 01 March 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 in St Petersburg. He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most famously, Lolita. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian emigre writers. He died in 1977.