Many think Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov's greatest novel. At its heart beats the 999-line poem, "Pale Fire," penned by the distinguished American poet John Shade. This first-ever facsimile edition of the poem shows it to be not just a fictional device but a masterpiece of American poetry, albeit by an invented persona - "the greatest of invented poets," according to Nabokov's own accurate evaluation. This attractive box contains two booklets, the poem "Pale Fire" in a handsome pocket edition and the book of essays by renowned Nabokov authority Brian Boyd and poet R.S. Gwynn, as well as facsimiles of the index cards that John Shade (like his maker, Nabokov) used for composing his poem, printed exactly as Vladimir Nabokov described them. Artist Jean Holabird, who conceived the project, illustrates key details of the poem's pattern and pathos.

In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shades self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue.

In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shades self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue.

The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade`s editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the `Great Beaver`, Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? A novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death.

The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade`s editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the `Great Beaver`, Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? A novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death.

A novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death. The poem appears in full and the narrative develops through the lengthy, and increasingly eccentric, notes by his posthumous editor.

The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should. Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterwork is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.

The Original of Laura is Vladimir Nabokov's final, incredible unfinished novel in fragments. Dr Philip Wild, a man of brilliance, wit, fortune and tremendous bulk, is used to suffering humiliations at the hands of his wife, the younger, slender, and rudely promiscuous Flora. But in a novel, a 'maddening masterpiece' documenting her infidelities, written by one of her lovers and given to the doctor, she appears as My Laura. Dishonoured, Wild still finds pleasure in life, by indulging in self-annihilation, beginning with the removal of his toes. Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was born in St Petersburg. He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most famously Lolita. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian emigre writers. Dmitri Nabokov was Vladimir Nabokov's son.

In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents over-imbibe in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; riotous partying exacts a comic price in stories by P. G. Wodehouse and Kingsley Amis; Charles Jackson and Jean Rhys chronicle liquor-soaked epiphanies; while John Cheever, Vladimir Nabokov and Robert Coover set their characters afloat on surreal, soul-revealing adventures. Here, too, are well-lubricated tales by Dickens, Twain, Beckett, Colette, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Doris Lessing, Frank O'Connor, Penelope Lively, and many more. The settings include hotels and restaurants, a wine cellar in Italy, a cafe in Paris, a bar in Dublin, a New York nightclub, Jazz Age speakeasies, suburban lawn parties and the occasional gaol cell, and are peopled by lovers and loners, barmen and chorus girls, youths taking their first sips and experienced tipplers nursing hangovers. Whether living it up or drowning their sorrows, the vividly drawn characters in these sparkling pages will leave you shaken and stirred.

«Cette ?uvre - faut-il dire centaure ou sirene -, ?uvre mi-prose, mi-poeme, est une creation d'une beaute, d'une originalite parfaites : offrant tout a la fois la symetrie, la singularite et la verite morale. On y peut voir un objet de curiosite. Ce n'en est pas moins une des plus grandes ?uvres d'art de ce temps : le roman moderne que nous croyions mort et qui n'etait qu'endormi.» Mary McCarthy.

These four books, published in the Soviet Union between 1925 and 1927, were a collaboration between poet Samuil Marshak (1887-1964) and painter Vladimir Lebedev (1891 - 1967). Based on the idea that a children's book is an important cultural object in its own right, they linked painting, poetry and typography and created the timeless precursor to the modern children's picture book. In four brand new translations, The Circus and Other Stories includes four of Marshak's tales: 'The Circus', 'Ice Cream', 'Yesterday and Today' and 'How the Plane Made a Plane', all illustrated by Lebedev.

Лицензионное издание, выпущенное на виниле. Содержание альбома: Dear Old House, Gaga, Palmer, Madonna: A Polemic, Judy Blume, Do You Swear To Tell The Truth, The Whole Truth & Nothing But The Truth So Help Your Black Ass, My Last Landlady, The Rhyme Maidens, In Relig Odhrain, I Will Write In Words Of Fire, Making A Chair, 100 Words, Makin’ Whoopee, The Problem With Saints, Jump (For Jeremy Geidt), Psycho, I Google You, Electric Blanket (Amanda And Jason Webley, Broken Heart Stew (By Amanda), Ask Neil And Amanda, Poem For Neil (By Amanda), Poem For Amanda (By Neil)

Лицензионное издание, выпущенное на виниле. Содержание альбома: Dear Old House, Gaga, Palmer, Madonna: A Polemic, Judy Blume, Do You Swear To Tell The Truth, The Whole Truth & Nothing But The Truth So Help Your Black Ass, My Last Landlady, The Rhyme Maidens, In Relig Odhrain, I Will Write In Words Of Fire, Making A Chair, 100 Words, Makin’ Whoopee, The Problem With Saints, Jump (For Jeremy Geidt), Psycho, I Google You, Electric Blanket (Amanda And Jason Webley, Broken Heart Stew (By Amanda), Ask Neil And Amanda, Poem For Neil (By Amanda), Poem For Amanda (By Neil)

Caroline Jayne Church, mega-bestselling creator of Ten Tiny Toes and Good Night, I Love You, brings us a sweet, rhyming celebration of a puppy's love for every season of the year! Her charming poem guides the reader through puddle-jumping in spring, kite-flying in summer, leaf-chasing in fall, and ice-skating in winter... and ends snuggled by a cozy fire at the end of a long day.

This book contains a lost tooth, a wedding, a horrible guest and a pukey poem! Four utterly hilarious and totally brilliant Horrid Henry stories by Francesca Simon, with illustrations by Tony Ross. An irresistible introduction to reading for pleasure.

'Twas the Night Before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse...' The traditional and much-loved Christmas poem by Clement Clarke Moore, illustrated by John Joven.