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Vera by stacy schiff5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form. Stacy Schiff writes that Vera Nabokov was actually responsible for Lolita, in one respect at least: she saved the manuscript from the fire into which. As Stacy Schiff shows in her new biography, there is much to admire about Samuel Adams: He was utterly incorruptible he cared nothing for personal gain he was deeply idealistic, had great. 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. Item 255229 ISBN: 0375755349 Minor edgewear, slight browning to interior, stamp to first page. ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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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