Vintage Nabokov

<b>Novelist, poet, critic, translator, and, above all, a peerless imaginer, Vladimir Nabokov was arguably the most dazzling prose stylist of the twentieth century. In novels like <i>Lolita, Pale Fire, </i>and <i>Ada, or Ardor,</i> he turned language into an instrument of ecstasy.</b><br><br> <b>Vintage Nabokov</b><i> </i>includes sections 1-10 of his most famous and controversial novel, <b>Lolita</b>; the stories “The Return of Chorb,” “The Aurelian,” “A Forgotten Poet,” “Time and Ebb,” “Signs and Symbols,” “The Vane Sisters,” and “Lance”;<i> </i>and chapter 12 from his memoir <b>Speak, Memory</b><i>. </i>Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers.<br><i><br>"</i>It was Nabokov’s gift to bring paradise wherever he alighted.<i>” —</i>John Updike<i>, <i>The New York Review of Books</i></i>