King, Queen, Knave Paperback / softback
by Vladimir Nabokov
Part of the Penguin Modern Classics series
Paperback / softback
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'Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius' David Lodge'Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave.
Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. 'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' - Nabokov darts a glance to the reader - 'he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set here and there...
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:22/02/2001
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- ISBN:9780141185774
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Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:22/02/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780141185774
