Ebook {Epub PDF} Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov

This volume collects Nabokov’s famous lectures on Western European literature, with analysis and commentary on Charles Dickens’s Bleak House, Gustav Flaubert’s Madam Bovary, Marcel Proust’s The Walk by Swann’s Place, Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” and other works. This volume also includes photographic reproductions of Nabokov’s original notes, /5(). 10 rows · Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Book Format: Paperback. 15 rows ·  · Lectures on literature This edition was published in by Harcourt Brace Cited by:

Vladimir Nabokov (), Russian-born poet, novelist, literary critic, translator, and essayist was awarded the National Medal for Literature for his life's work in He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. He is the author of many works including Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada, and Speak, Memory. Vladimir Nabokov's lecture on Madame Bovary 1/ Nabokov says "3 forces make and mold a human being: heredity, environment, and the unknown agent X. Of these the 2nd, environment, is by far the least important, whilst the last, agent X, is by far the most influential.". Lectures on Literature. Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Stevenson, Proust, Kafka, Joyce by Vladimir Nabokov, , Harcourt Brace Jovanovich edition, in English.

Tolstoy and company explained by Nabakov; Lectures on Russian Literature, by Vladimir Nabokov. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. pp. $ Lectures on literature This edition was published in by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in New York,. London. For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers; Introduction by John Updike; illustrations.