Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. MINT: MASTERPIECE: BRILLIANT: AUTHORITATIVE: NEW: First Edition w/ no. line showing Second Printing * NEW handsomely designed mylar-protected color jacket w/ IMPECCABLE edges & corners & showing orig. $25.00 price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, beautiful NEW steel-blue-linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp edges & corners & w/ titles handsomely gilt-stamped on oxblood title-panel inside gilt-borders on spine, EXCELLENT smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & pale-yellow cloth bands at spine-caps, SUPERB patterned end-papers echoing handsome jacket motif, IMPECCABLE interior handsomely printed in Linotron Palatino w/ EXCEPTIONAL clarity & elegance on superb acid-free paper * Illustrated w/ choice b-w photographs & reproductions * 6.26" x 9.50" x 1.88", 1.29 kg, xiv+607 (621) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: This first critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, allows us full access to the dramatic details of his life & the depths of his art. In this first volume of his magisterial two-volume work, Brian Boyd vividly describes the liberal milieu of the aristocratic Nabokov family, their escape from Russia, Nabokov's education at Cambridge, & the murder of his father in Berlin. Boyd then turns to the years that Nabokov spent, impoverished, in Germany and France, until the coming of Hitler forced him to flee with his wife & son to the United States. This brilliant volume stands on its own as a fascinating exploration of Nabokov's Russian years & Russian worlds, both pre-revolutionary & emigre * HIGHEST PRAISE: "I cannot decide what to admire most: the dazzling array of facts which Brain Boyd managed to gather, the care and sensibility of his reading, or the independence of his judgment and style. I am certain that he will not only have written the authoritative work on Vladimir Nabokov, but one of the great literary biographies of (the twentieth) century." - Dieter E. Zimmer, editor, Die Zeit * "This is the first comprehensive account of Nabokov's oeuvre. The book's wide-ranging research & deep affinity for Nabokov's writings should establish it as the single indispensable source on its subject for many decades to come." - Simon Karlinsky, University of California, Berkeley * "Mr.Boyd has a remarkable gift for drawing life & literature together. . . . [What he does] in this impressive biography reveals to us a Nabokov who has been far too little known. . . . As a biography [Boyd's] book can hardly be surpassed. It is a definitive life of a man and a superbly documented chronicle of his time." - NYTBR * "Boyd has written a literary biography that deserves to stand on the same shelf as Richard Ellmann's study of James Joyce and may well make of Nabokov an equally legendary figure, with appropriate shrines in Leningrad, Berlin, and various motels along American freeways. . . . It is one of the prime virtues [of the book] that the work is explored as thoroughly as the man." - Globe and Mail, Toronto * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates. N� de r�f. du vendeur 010270

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