Lectures on Literature Lectures on Literature

Lectures on Literature

    • 5.0 • 2 Ratings
    • $17.99
    • $17.99

Publisher Description

The acclaimed author of Lolita offers unique insight into works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, and others—with an introduction by John Updike.
 
In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov’s teaching, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, as he introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction.
 
This volume collects Nabokov’s famous lectures on Western European literature, with analysis and commentary on Charles Dickens’s Bleak House, Gustav Flaubert’s Madam Bovary, Marcel Proust’s The Walk by Swann’s Place, Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” and other works. This volume also includes photographic reproductions of Nabokov’s original notes, revealing his own edits, underlined passages, and more.
 
Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers
Introduction by John Updike

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2017
December 5
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
452
Pages
PUBLISHER
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
SELLER
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
SIZE
89.9
MB

More Books Like This

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated, Inline Footnotes) The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated, Inline Footnotes)
2016
The Bright Book of Life The Bright Book of Life
2020
Silas Marner Silas Marner
2007
Pale Fire Pale Fire
1989
Digital Dubliners Digital Dubliners
2014
The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated) The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)
1883

More Books by Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita Lolita
1989
Lolita Lolita
2018
Pale Fire Pale Fire
1989
Speak, Memory Speak, Memory
1989
The Annotated Lolita The Annotated Lolita
1991
Lolita Lolita
2021

Customers Also Bought

Along the Road Along the Road
2021
On Literature On Literature
2005
The Common Reader The Common Reader
2021
Why Read the Classics? Why Read the Classics?
2014
Event Event
2014
The House of the Dead The House of the Dead
2023