Set 2 Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature / Lectures on Russian Literature

Description: Set of 2 Nabokov Lectures on Literature and Lectures on Russian Literature. Both are in excellent, like new condition. Harcourt Press. Lectures on Literature:This volume collects Nabokov’s famous lectures on Western European literature, with analysis and commentary on Charles Dickens’s Bleak House, Gustav Flaubert’s Madame 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. Lectures on Russian Literature:This volume collects Nabokov’s famous lectures on nineteenth-century Russian literature, with analysis and commentary on Nikolay Gogol’s Dead Souls and “The Overcoat”; Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons; Maxim Gorky’s “On the Rafts”; Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilych; two short stories and a play by Anton Chekhov; and several works by Fyodor Dostoevsky, including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Possessed.This volume also includes Nabokov’s lectures on the art of translation, the nature of Russian censorship, and other topics. Featured throughout the volume are photographic reproductions of Nabokov’s original notes. Please ask any / all questions prior to bidding, no returns. US shipping only Please check out my other listings, which could be great companions for your library. I'll be hapy to combine shipping. Drop me a note if you have a question. Thanks and happy reading!

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