Cited as one of the best books of 1990 by The New York Times and Time magazine, this major biography describes Nabokov's escape from Russia, his education at Cambridge, and his impoverished years in Germany and France, until the coming of Hitler forced him to flee to the United States with his wife and son. 56 halftones.
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Cited as one of the best books of 1990 by The New York Times and Time magazine, this major biography describes Nabokov's escape from Russia, his education at Cambridge, and his impoverished years in Germany and France, until the coming of Hitler forced him to flee to the United States with his wife and son. 56 halftones.
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Add this copy of Vladimir Nabokov: the Russian Years to cart. $5.00, fair condition, Sold by Dream Books Co. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Denver, CO, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by Princeton University Press.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Very good condition. Dust jacket has a small approx. 1/4 inch edge rip on lower front dj edge. Otherwise minimal wear. Clean and tight. No writing or marking.
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Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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VG to VG- in VG to VG- jacket. DJ: some rubbing & edgewear; few small creases & chips; some yellowing/discoloration. Book: some rubbing & edgewear; tiny corner bump; few faint/small spots on edges; yellowing; otherwise overall clean & tight. 607 pages.
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VG+ Wrappers. Black and decorative blue rear cover, decorative blue spine, photographic front cover (with young Nabokov) are all clean and glossy. Light rubbing at the head and tail of the spine, mostly concentrated on the rear corner of each. Light rubbing at the tip of each of the four outside corners. Just a trace of rubbing in a few places around the outside edges of the front and rear cover. Couple light wrinkles near the upper corner of the rear cover. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 607 pages. Illustrated with photographs and some artwork. Heavier than average book may incur additional shipping cost for orders selecting International or Priority services. Some wear, but overall a tight, clean and relatively attractive copy.
Brian Boyd - much like his subject - is a genius. His 2-volume 1000+ page biography reads like a novel yet is filled with so much detail and insight into the enigmatic mind of Nabokov that in content, it must rate as highly as a scholarly work as it is a literary one. Boyd's ability to balance the needs of a proper academic biography with that of a narrative biography is seemless. The reader is drawn into Nabokov's world without ever feeling in the least that he is being smothered in arcana. And yet every perfect detail, like the colors and patterns on the wings of Nabokov's beloved butterflies, is there. A masterpiece of biography and a masterpiece of storytelling.