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Stacy Schiff's Vera is a triumph of the biographical form. Vera, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine-a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the twentieth century, the story of the Nabokov's fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel.
Vladimir Nabokov-the emigre author of Lolita, Pale Fire, and Speak, Memory-wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife Vera, and third for no one at all. Vladimir Nabokov, brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Nabokov and Svetlana Siewert had been engaged since 1922, just after the March 28 assassination of Nabokovs father at a Berlin political meeting. Select the quantity of the product you desire and click the "Add" button.Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and hailed by critics as both monumental (Boston Globe) and utterly romantic (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff's Vera, the story of Mrs. She was his agent, his muse, his classroom. Read Less Below is a list of products arranged by condition. Vladimir Nabokov, alias Sirin, alias VN, became Vra’s life and career the reader is told that she elevated the role of wife to a high art. Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form. Véra, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine-a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. “Without my wife,” he once noted, “I wouldn’t have written a single novel.” Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the century, the story of the Nabokovs’ fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. Vladimir Nabokov-the émigré author of Lolita Pale Fire and Speak, Memory-wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, Véra, and third for no one at all. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both “monumental” (The Boston Globe) and “utterly romantic” (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff’s Véra (Mrs.
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