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REVENGE

VLADIMIR NABOKOV

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Publisher:
PENGUIN CLASSICS
Year of publication:
2025
Subject:
Contemporary fiction
ISBN:
978-0-241-74700-1
Pages:
160
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'And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy!'

A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah and the Devil disguised as a middle-aged woman appear in these playful, exuberant stories by Vladimir Nabokov. So do a vengeful husband, a barber confronting his torturer and the author himself, as he recalls his first love. Each of the thirteen tales here enchants and enraptures us, only to gleefully confound our expectations.

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