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History seemed to pursue Vladimir Nabokov. In the Russian Revolution and two world wars he lost his homeland, social position, family, friends and even his own language. PENGUIN ILLUSTRATED LIVES is a new series of photographic biographies that allows you to step into the world of your favourite writers. Each title contains a brief text (15,000 words), integrated with over one hundred images, allowing an immediate understanding of their life: their family, friends, home and work. With manyphotographs reproduced in colour and captions introducing additional stories to the central narrative, the PENGUIN ILLUSTRATED LIVES is far and away more personal and wide-ranging than any biography.
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"Penguin Illustrated Lives" is a series of photographic biographies that offers a fresh, intimate portrait of some of our favourite writers. An incisive, lively text is accompanied by over 100 evocative images, many in colour and some previously unpublished, which depict the author's world - family, friends and artistic circle together with original book jackets, letters and other ephemera. History seemed to pursue Vladimir Nabokov. In the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Second World War he lost his homeland, social position and family, and was even compelled to abandon his own language. In 1955, by then an American citizen, he published "Lolita", which caused a sensation and established his reputation as a strikingly original writer of English. Despite the shadow of exile, Nabokov's work exudes a tremendous vivacity and joy. Even at its darkest it has an inventiveness and a richness of perception that has rarely been surpassed.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0140293515
- ISBN 13 9780140293517
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