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269 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780199603985
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 08 March 2011
Description
In a speech given in December 1925, Vladimir Nabokov declared that 'everything in the world plays', including 'love, nature, the arts, and domestic puns.' All of Nabokov's novels contain scenes of games: chess, scrabble, cards, football, croquet, ...
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269 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780199603985
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 08 March 2011
Description
In a speech given in December 1925, Vladimir Nabokov declared that 'everything in the world plays', including 'love, nature, the arts, and domestic puns.' All of Nabokov's novels contain scenes of games: chess, scrabble, cards, football, croquet, ...