The Enchanter

ISBN-13: 9780141191188 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 96 str.

Vladimir Nabokov

Opis

The dark corners of the soul are laid bare, when, in order to justify his erotic obessesion with a pre-pubescent young girl, a middle-aged jeweller marries her ailing, widowed mother whose death leaves him sole guardian of the shyly innocent charmer.

O autorze

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.