About this title: Volume Two of a three-volume set that includes all the fiction and nonfiction Nabokov wrote while in America, along with notes and chronology by Brian Boyd.
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Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780691067971ISBN:069106797X
Description: VG/VG+ 069106797x. Book like new with minor wear backstrip end corners and slight smudging lower edge. Dustjacket like new with no visible defects.; tall 8vo 9"-10" tall; 783 pages; Literary criticism author specific N, thick blue orange pattern with black/white tan with light blue above and below box upper half, fictcat tem. read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780691067971ISBN:069106797X
Description: Good in Good jacket. Ex-Library Second volume of the massive biography of Nabakov. Usuall Ex-library distinctions. In pretty good shape(not taken out much) but at almost 800 pages it's binding is a little loose after having been read(not cracked just not as tight as volume 1 is). read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780691067971ISBN:069106797X
Description: Fine in very good dust jacket. excellent hardcover in blue linen. has tiny wear at head of dj else dj like new also. free delivery confirmation in U.S. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 783 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Paperback Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780691024714ISBN:0691024715
Description: Good. Brief summary of content available upon request by e-mail. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780691024714ISBN:0691024715
Description: Very Good. Text pages clean & tight with no markings or highlighting. Appears unread. Cover has scattered scratches. Both a literary biography & an introduction to Nabokov's work. Extremely readable copy. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1993-01-11
ISBN-13:9780691024714ISBN:0691024715
Description: Very Good. Full number line, tight, bright and shiny, uncreased spine, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1991-09-10
ISBN-13:9780691067971ISBN:069106797X
Description: Like new. Oversized hardcover with 783 pages, illustrated end pages. Book and dust jacket are both in like new condition. Outstanding literary biography. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr, Princeton, New Jersey
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780691024714ISBN:0691024715
Description: Very Good+ (Book Condition) A nice clean copy, but for remainder mark on bottom edge and shelfwear to cover. Text clean, binding strong. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair. ] read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr, Princeton, New Jersey
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780691067971ISBN:069106797X
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine dj remainder mark. read more
"I find that biography provides the path I need to enter into the world of a great writer, to comprehend as well as I can the experience, personality and mind of someone whose fiction I want to read and understand. For example, I read six or seven biographies of Marcel Proust before I could finish his great novel, actually before I could proceed beyond the first 200 pages of volume one. And then I read all 3300 pages nearly without interruption and with great pleasure and insight. For decades I've harbored a sense that VN's fiction amounted to so many overwrought, precious and self-congratulatory confections. I suspect I'll have the same response when I read Lolita, Pnin and Pale Fire, but I also suspect that I'll approach these books with a much enhanced understanding of their artistry and beauty and the gifts and experience that enabled VN to write them. And I might even be able to finish them now. We'll see. I appreciate the literary criticism that Boyd intersperces among the chapters of his biography. I will note that VN must have been a thoroughly obnoxious character, with an entirely imperturbable grandiosity, bordering on paranoia, I suspect. I haved learned to value his writing, nonetheless. Of course, he has been dead for 32 years, and none of his venemous spewings and malicious rantings had anything whatever to do with me. So reading this volume of his biography has helped me practice this sort of detachment, which I sorely need, yet once more."
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