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Vladimir Nabokov

The Gift

The Gift

Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Genre: General Fiction

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      All of our books that have a dust wrapper are covered in clear protective, removable film and are packed professionally in bubble wrap and a box for shipping so that they reach you in perfect condition.

    • Book Condition & Notes

      Dust Jacket is not price clipped. Chips at head of spine and a couple of small closed tears arounf the tail. Colours on spine are slightly faded. Contemporary ownership inscription on the front free end paper

    About the book

    The Gift is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. This gorgeous tapestry of literature and butterflies tells the story of Fyodor's pursuits as a writer. Its heroine is not Fyodor's elusive and beloved Zina, however, but Russian prose and poetry themselves.

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