King, Queen, Knave

Name: King, Queen, Knave
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9781441872692

Author: Vladimir Nabokov

Narrator: Christopher Lane

Unabridged: 9 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 12/05/2010

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

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.

About Vladimir Nabokov

One of the twentieth century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on February 25, 2021

The train is on the track… The huge black clock hand is still at rest but is on the point of making its once-a-minute gesture; that resilient jolt will set a whole world in motion. The clock face will slowly turn away, full of despair, contempt, and boredom, as one by one the iron pillars will start......more

Goodreads review by Tadas on January 12, 2025

The book is worth reading, especially for Nabokov fans.......more

Goodreads review by MJ on February 06, 2019

Senryu Review: Dim late-teen tailor lusts after Teutonic wilf in heaven-kissed prose......more

Goodreads review by Tessa on August 20, 2021

"Dintre toate romanele mele, aceasta nemaipomenita fiara e cea mai jucausa" spunea Vladimir Nabokov despre opera de fata. Asadar si recenzia mea o sa fie una amuzanta si jucausa. Romanul este un tribut adus lui Flaubert prin "imitatia deliberata" a creatiei sale "Doamna Bovary" si infatiseaza un trio......more

Goodreads review by Aprile on April 03, 2018

Il re - soddisfatto, tronfio, narciso, iperattivo, egocentrico al punto da non considerare neppure l’altrui personalità, borioso, sicuro di sé, diciamo ottuso, non sente nell’aria la crisi, né quella della moglie né i primi accenni di quella finanziaria, e comunque infantile - La donna - eburnea, cor......more