For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited...
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For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers; Introduction by John Updike; illustrations. Front Cover -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editor's Foreword by Fredson Bowers -- Introduction by John Updike -- Good Readers and Good Writers -- Jane Austen: Mansfield Park -- Charles Dickens: Bleak House -- Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary -- Robert Louis Stevenson: "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- Marcel Proust: The Walk by Swann's Place -- Franz Kafka: "The Metamorphosis -- James Joyce: "Ulysses -- Back Matter -- The Art of Literature and Commonsense -- L'Envoi -- Appendix -- Other Books by this Author -- Back Cover -- Spine.
