Book
Letters to Véra / Vladimir Nabokov ; edited and translated by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307593368 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0307593363 (hardback)
- Physical Description: lix, 794 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published in Great Britain by Penguin Classics, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2014." "This is a Borzoi book." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 543-732) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | List of Plates -- List of Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Envelopes for the Letters to Véra -- "My beloved and precious darling": Translating Letters to Véra -- Letters to Véra -- Appendix One: Riddles -- Appendix Two: Afterlife -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |
| Summary, etc.: | "The letters of the great writer to his wife--gathered here for the first time--chronicle a decades-long love story and document anew the creative energies of an artist who was always at work."--Amazon.com. "A collection of letters between Vladimir Nabokov and his wife, Vera"-- Provided by publisher. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 > Correspondence. Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 > Family. Authors, Russian > 20th century > Correspondence. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
