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Hermann is a German chocolate manufacturer, who lives in bourgeois comfort with his pleasing but stupid Russian wife and her drunken cousin. On a business trip to Prague, Hermann stumbles across a man he believes to be his double and starts plotting to turn this encounter to his advantage.
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Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way that masters can - to laughter that is near to tears. (The Guardian)
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Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way that masters can - to laughter that is near to tears. (The Guardian)
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 émigré writers. He died in 1977.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 014005474X
- ISBN 13 9780140054743
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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Despair
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ISBN 13: 9780140054743
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Book Description Envoi rapide tranches fânées intérieur propre. 12 8x1 4x19 6cm. 1981. Broché. 176 pages. Bon état. Seller Inventory # 100110098
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