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  • Vladimir Nabokov: Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951 (LOA #87)

    Vladimir Nabokov: Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951 (LO…

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    This Library of America volume is the first of three volumes presenting the most authoritative versions of the English works of the brilliant Russian émigré, Vladimir Nabokov.The Real Life of...
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  • Cavafy's Alexandria

    Cavafy's Alexandria

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    C. P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth...
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  • Parting with Illusions

    Parting with Illusions

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    Leading Soviet commentator Vladimir Pozner reflects on his nation from Stalin to perestroika, the evolution of the Communist party, past "cultural genocide," and the world's emergence from Cold War...
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  • Alexandria Still | | 9780691062839

    Alexandria Still

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    Few places have shaped as many sensibilities as the exotic, mythical city of Alexandria. Jane Lagoudis Pinchin's gracefully written book describes the profound influence exerted by the spirit of...
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  • Authoritarian Russia

    Authoritarian Russia

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    Russia today represents one of the major examples of the phenomenon of “electoral authoritarianism” which is characterized by adopting the trappings of democratic institutions (such as elections,...
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  • The Queue | | 9781590172742

    The Queue

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    Vladimir Sorokin’s first published novel, The Queue, is a sly comedy about the late Soviet “years of stagnation.” Thousands of citizens are in line for . . . nobody knows quite what, but the rumors...
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  • First Person

    First Person

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    Who is this Vladimir Putin? Who is this man who suddenly--overnight and without warning--was handed the reigns of power to one of the most complex, formidable, and volatile countries in the world?...
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  • Ice Trilogy

    Ice Trilogy

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    A New York Review Books OriginalIn 1908, deep in Siberia, it fell to earth. THEIR ICE. A young man on a scientific expedition found it. It spoke to his heart, and his heart named him Bro. Bro felt...
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  • Alexandria

    Alexandria

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  • Nabokov's Otherworld

    Nabokov's Otherworld

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    A major reexamination of the novelist Vladimir Nabokov as "literary gamesman," this book systematically shows that behind his ironic manipulation of narrative and his puzzle-like treatment of detail...
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  • The Original of Laura

    The Original of Laura

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    "Nabokov's last metafictive parable. . . . One of the most interesting short stories Nabokov never wrote." —San Francisco ChronicleWhen Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his...
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  • Telluria

    Telluria

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    In the warring, neo-feudal society of this cross-genre novel for fans of Cormac McCarthy and William Gibson, the greatest treasure is a dose of tellurium—a magical drug administered by a spike...
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  • Soviet Intellectuals and Political Power

    Soviet Intellectuals and Political Power

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    In this unprecedented work on the status and role of intellectuals in Soviet political life, a former Soviet sociologist maps out the delicate, often paradoxical, ties between the political regime...
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  • Vladimir | | 9781982187644

    Vladimir

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    An NPR, Washington Post, Time, People, Vulture, Guardian, Vox, Kirkus Reviews, Newsweek, LitHub, and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year * “Delightful…cathartic, devious, and terrifically...
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  • The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

    The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

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    From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and...
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  • Philo of Alexandria

    Philo of Alexandria

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    Hardcover without jacket. Very faintly sunned on front board and spine; pages are clean and sound, with clear text throughout. TS
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  • Transparent Things

    Transparent Things

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    "Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero--sullen, gawky Hugh Person--to Switzerland . . . As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the...
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  • Counterflows

    Counterflows

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  • Vladimir Nabokov

    Vladimir Nabokov

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    This first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of twentieth-century writers, finally allows us full access to the dramatic details of his life and the depths of his art...
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