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King, Queen, Knave - Nabokov, Vladimir, and Nabokov, Dmitri (Translated by)
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'Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius' David Lodge 'Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. 'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' - Nabokov darts a glance to the reader - 'he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set ...

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King, Queen, Knave 2001, Penguin Classics, London

ISBN-13: 9780141185774

Mass-market paperback

King, Queen, Knave 1989, Vintage, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780679723400

Trade paperback