World Literature
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Voltaire

XIX What happened to them at Surinam,ay and how Candide got to know Martin Our travellers’ first day’s journey was very pleasant; they were elated with the prospect of possessing ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 1989-03-12 | Author:Rainer Maria Rilke [Rilke, Rainer Maria]

Fern aber, dunkel vor dem klaren Ausgang, stand irgend jemand, dessen Angesicht nicht zu erkennen war. Er stand und sah, wie auf dem Streifen eines Wiesenpfades mit trauervollem Blick der ...
( Category: German March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Vladimir Nabokov

19 PAUL gazed after her and the rolls of fat over his collar grew the color of beetroot. Despite the sweetness of his nature, he would not have minded doing ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]

On a Book Entitled The Enchanter by Dmitri Nabokov THE TITLE FOR THE FOLLOWING brief notes, which may interest the reader and perhaps answer a few questions, was chosen with ...
( Category: World Literature March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1928-01-01 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]

8 She began teaching him obstinately and fervidly. After the first embarrassments, stumblings, and perplexities, he gradually began to understand what she was communicating to him, doing so with almost ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]

8 Theoretically, the simplest way to reach Waindell from Cranton was to get by taxi to Framingham, catch a fast train to Albany, and then a local for a shorter ...
( Category: Humor March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]

I imagined rather vividly Vanya protruding the tip of her tongue at one side of her mouth and snipping off with her little scissors the unwanted Smurov. But maybe it ...
( Category: World Literature March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:Nabokov, Vladimir [Nabokov, Vladimir]

Twelve He was awakened by a muted tapping, scratching, and the sound of something crumbling somewhere. Just as when, having fallen asleep healthy last night, you wake up past midnight ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]

he said plaintively, trying to distinguish the board between the narrow, black backs bent over it. They dwindled completely away and disappeared. On the board the pieces were mixed up ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Vladimir Nabokov

PART THREE Neither Slaughter in the Sun (as the English translation of CameraLucida got retitled while I lay helplessly hospitalized in New York) nor TheRed Topper sold well. My ambitious, ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]

My mother and her brother, Vasiliy Ivanovich Rukavishnikov (1874–1916), on the terrace of his château at Pau, Basses Pyrenees, October 1913. 3 We are now ready to tackle the main ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1971-01-02 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]

25 At nightfall Darwin dropped in, magnificently flung off his gown, sat down by the fire, and immediately began livening up the coals with the poker. Martin lay in silence, ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]

Chapter Four Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise; And with a ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-05 | Author:Nabokov, Vladimir [Nabokov, Vladimir]

Very truly yours, Vladimir Nabokov TO: STANLEY KUBRICK CC, 1 p. 2088 Mandeville Canyon Rd. Los Angeles 49, Calif. March 23, 1960 Dear Mr. Kubrick, Here is Act One of ...
( Category: World Literature March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-10-31 | Author:Marcel Proust

As to the coming of the Princesse de Luxembourg, whose carriage, on the day she had left the fruit, had drawn up outside the hotel, it had not passed unobserved ...
( Category: World Literature March 25,2014 )