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Penguin Classics
15 May 2025
Series: Penguin Archive
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

'And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy!'

A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah and the Devil disguised as a middle-aged woman appear in these playful, exuberant stories by Vladimir Nabokov. So do a vengeful husband, a barber confronting his torturer and the author himself, as he recalls his first love. Each of the thirteen tales here enchants and enraptures us, only to gleefully confound our expectations.
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Imprint:   Penguin Classics
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 180mm,  Width: 110mm,  Spine: 9mm
Weight:   100g
ISBN:   9780241747001
ISBN 10:   0241747007
Series:   Penguin Archive
Pages:   160
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.

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