Lectures on Literature: Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Joyce, Kafka, Proust, Stevenson (Picador Books) by Vladimir Nabokov

Lectures on Literature: Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Joyce, Kafka, Proust, Stevenson (Picador Books)

Vladimir Nabokov

406 pages first pub 1980 (editions)

nonfiction essays reflective slow-paced

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For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edite...

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