9780141191157 - The Original of Laura: (Dying Is Fun) A Novel in Fragments de Nabokov, Vladimir (23 résultats)

Etat : Very Good. Reprint. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Etat : good. vendeur pro, expedition soignee en 24/48h.Le livre peut montrer des signes d'usure dus à son utilisation, des défauts esthétiques tels que des rayures, des bosses et/ou des coins legerement endommages.

Hardback. Etat : Fine.

Hardback. Etat : Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Etat : Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. book vg dj has slight wear and is good.

Etat : Good. Original boards, dust jacket, 8vo.

Etat : neuwertig. Sprache: English Hardcover mit SU ,originalverschweißt.

Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag. Etat : Sehr gut. Dying Is Fun A Novel in Fragments Zustand: SEHR GUTER Zustand! 304 Seiten Englisch 1250g.

Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag. Etat : Sehr gut. Dying Is Fun A Novel in Fragments Zustand: SEHR GUTER Zustand! 304 Seiten Deutsch 1254g.

Gr.8° (24 x 15,5 cm). XXI, 278 S., hauptsächlich Faksimiles, 1 Titelportrait. Original-Leinenband mit Rückentitel, Deckel mit Faksimiles und typographisch gestalteter OUmschlag. (=Penguin Classics). Erste Ausgabe in Großbritannien / 1st UK-Edition. - Sehr gutes Exemplar. Sprache: englisch.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.74.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing (2009). 278pp. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE copy, now preserved in archival jacket protector.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. The dust jacket little wear, with a small scuff on the front. 280 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Pictorial Cloth. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. 2009 first edition, first printing with number 1 to copyright page. Size octavo, 9.25" tall, 278 pages. Pictorial cloth the design being reproduction of Nabokov's ms notes that formed the fragments of the novel. Paste-downs start as white at the outer edge and then fade in to black on the end-paper, with the dust jacket. Book condition fine, a very clean copy. Dust jacket condition near fine, slight ripple to the edges otherwise fine, not price clipped. Each page is printed on grey paper and includes 138 colour reproductions of the index cards on which the novel was originally written. Nabokov instructed in his will for the manuscript to be burned but his family couldn't bring themselves to do that and kep the manuscript locked in a vault of a Swiss bank for more than three decades.

Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Scanned note card images throughout. Tight copy. Record # 471182.

Hardback. Edited by Dmitri Nabokov. xxi, 278pp Penguin Classics, an imprint of Penguin Books, London, 2009. 1st edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Etat : As New. First Edition, first impression. Octavo. pp. xxii, 282. A book in Fine condition. Still in shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA. But Nabokov's wife, Vera, couldn't bear to destroy her husband's last work, and when she died, the fate of the manuscript fell to her son. Dmitri Nabokov,then seventy-four - the Russian novelist's only surviving heir, and translator of many of his books -struggled for decades with the decision of whether to honor his father's wish or preserve for posterity the last piece of writing of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His decision finally to allow publication will be passionately welcomed by both scholars and general readers.In its fragmented narrative - dark yet playful, preoccupied with mortality - we are given one last experience of a writer's unparalleled creativity, a glimpse of his last days, and a body of work finding its apotheosis. New, pristine, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. (Not remainder-marked or price-clipped) Scarce in this conditon; this is the collector's copy you want. *Packed carefully and shipped in a box to ensure delivery in described condition. l178.

Hardback. Ist Edition. This legendary novel has been the source of much anxiety and contention for Nabokov's fans - and family. The late Vladimir Nabokov requested that this unfinished work be destroyed, but his son, Dmitri, did not oblige, although neither did he allow the work to be published - until now. "The Original of Laura" is about a wonderfully large man called Philip Wild, married to a very promiscuous woman, and whose meditations concern the nature of death. The novel was complete in Nabokov's mind, though he died before he could translate his vision on to paper. It is hard, however, to imagine any scholars, Nabokov enthusiasts or literature lovers being disappointed by even these fragments. New Book. Sealed in plastic wrapper.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First American Edition. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly shelf worn with scuffs, creases & small tears in a mylar cover.

Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 2009.Hardcover.New,new.Shrinkwrapped.278 pages.Ships from Japan.Usually ships in 1-2 working days.

Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. SEALED PENGUIN CLASSICS EDITION.David Lodge wrote a brilliant review of this essential book. I would like to quote a section from it, and I hope David Lodge will not mind me doing so: "The way the manuscript has been ingeniously edited and reproduced overcomes to a large extent the disappointment and frustration inherent in reading an unfinished and disconnected narrative, and achieves an interesting aesthetic effect unintended by the author. If the manuscript had been printed in the conventional way we would have hurried through it vainly seeking some coherent plot or hint of its ultimate direction. As it is the book invites us to linger over the text's quiddity, relishing not just its stylistic feats but also the physical marks on the index cards, the poignantly shaky hand of an ailing author, his revisions and insertions and smudged rubbings out, and the tantalising space he left to be filled in later when he found the right word. 'The only way he could posse! ss her was in the most position of copulation'. Few readers will probably read the whole text continuously from the cards, but the matching printed text underneath also has a defamiliarising effect on the act of reading when, quite often, the last line does not extend to the margin. Page 7 for instance ends 'when they and their dog do not happen', and by habit one's brain tries to make sense of this as a complete clause before turning the page to find 'to need it.' This is an effect akin to a caesura in poetry, and indeed the structure of the work as a whole is more akin to modern poetry of the Eliot-Pound kind than a conventional novel, shifting from one voice to another without explanatory links. Towards the end these jump cuts become more abrupt, and there are more cards which bear just a few lines, sometimes evidently Nabokov's notes to himself. A line from The Waste Land, 'These fragments I have shored against my ruins', might have been a suitable epigraph for The Original of Laura, but the last lines of page 21 would make a better one: 'Only by identifying her with an unwritten, half-written, rewritten difficult book could one hope to render what'. Is it, as the blurb claims, Nabokov's 'final great book'? No. Does it contain brilliant, funny, astonishing sentences only Nabokov could have written? Yes. Should it have been preserved and published? Definitely." This new copy is still sealed. It is a heavy volume, and it is undoubtedly a typical Nabokov conundrum. To all addicts of this extraordinary writer this is utterly essential. Extra postage may be needed depending on destination. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.