King, Queen, Knave

King, Queen, Knave - Paperback

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King, Queen, Knave - Paperback

King, Queen, Knave - Paperback

by Vladimir Nabokov
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Book Overview

A love triangle, where two of the members attempt to murder the third. - King, Queen, Knave, like all Nabokov's writing, bears the unmistakable stamp of his genius - brilliant, erotic, deliciously macabre, and wholly unique.

"Fascinating...audacious and delightful." - The New York Times

The novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium store. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle's condescension in his aunt's bed.

"A simply overflowing sense of life." - Life Magazine

"A treat, a feast, the splendid work of a conscious and gifted artist." - Book Week

Front Jacket

The novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium store. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle's condescension in his aunt's bed.
ISBN9780679723400
Author Vladimir Nabokov
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 1989
LanguageENG- English
Pages288
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Vladimir Nabokov

VLADIMIR NABOKOV was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1899. After studying French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, he launched his literary career in Berlin and Paris. In 1940 he moved to the United States, here he achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. Lolita, arguably his most famous novel, was first published, by the Olympia Press, Paris, on September 15, 1955, and became a controversial success. Nabokov died in Montreux Switzerland in 1977.

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