{"product_id":"ariana-reines-the-rose-copy","title":"Vladimir Nabokov: Think, Write, Speak","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePenguin Classics, 2020, softcover, 528 pages, 13 x 19.8 cm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe last major collection of Nabokov's published material,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThink, Write, Speak\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebrings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordinary career.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach phase of his wandering life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at Cambridge in 1921, through his fame in the aftermath of the publication of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLolita\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to the final, fascinating interviews given shortly before his death in 1977.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduced and edited by his biographer Brian Boyd, this is an essential work for anyone who has been drawn into Nabokov's literary orbit. Here he is at his most inspirational, curious, playful, misleading and caustic. The seriousness of his aesthetic credo, his passion for great writing and his mix of delight and dismay at his own, sudden global fame in the 1950s are all brilliantly delineated.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57921315635584,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/71biiOPoKiL._SY522.jpg?v=1776767245","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/ariana-reines-the-rose-copy","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}