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Vladimir Nabokov - The American Years

Vladimir Nabokov - The American Years

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Publisher's Synopsis

The author of this book is the first writer to be granted access to the Nabokov archives and his research over the last ten years has taken him from New Zealand to the USSR, Europe and Canada. In this book, Boyd describes Nabokov's grief at having to abandon the Russian language and also his relief at finally finding a home in America after years of exile. This book is the third in a series of books on the life and work of Vladimir Nabokov, the previous books being "Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years" and "Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness".

About the Publisher

Chatto & Windus

Chatto was founded in 1855 by a bookseller-publisher called John Camden Hotten. On Hotten's death, Andrew Chatto, who had worked there since he was fifteen, acquired the business with a sleeping partner, W.E. Windus. In 1917, The Hogarth Press was founded by Virginia and Leonard Woolf, and in 1946 this too came under Chatto's management. The firm published many significant writers and classics - R.L. Stevenson, Lytton Strachey, Marcel Proust, Laurie Lee, Christopher Isherwood, Rosamond Lehmann, Henry Green, Sigmund Freud and Iris Murdoch. Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate, was editorial director in the 1960s.

Book information

ISBN: 9780701137014
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Imprint: Chatto & Windus
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 783
Weight: 1210g
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm