King, Queen, Knave (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Nabokov, Vladimir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140186565 ISBN 13: 9780140186567

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1993

Synopsis

First published in 1928, this book demonstrates the authors obsession with chess. King is Dreyer, wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a male clothing emporium. Ruddy with health and self-satisfaction he is repugnant to his cold queen, Martha, his exquisite middle-class wife.

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Review:

He did us all an honour by electing to use, and transform, our language. (Anthony Burgess)

Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way that masters can - to laughter that is near to tears. (The Guardian)

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0140186565
• ISBN 13: 9780140186567
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288