{"product_id":"lectures-on-literature-9780156027755","title":"Lectures on Literature","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eLolita\u003c\/em\u003e offers unique insight into works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, and others--with an introduction by John Updike.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov's teaching, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, as he introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume collects Nabokov's famous lectures on Western European literature, with analysis and commentary on Charles Dickens's \u003cem\u003eBleak House\u003c\/em\u003e, Gustav Flaubert's \u003cem\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/em\u003e, Marcel Proust's \u003cem\u003eThe Walk by Swann's Place\u003c\/em\u003e, Robert Louis Stevenson's \"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,\" and other works. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNabokov, Vladimir:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born poet, novelist, literary critic, translator, and essayist was awarded the National Medal for Literature for his life's work in 1973. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. He is the author of many works including Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada, and Speak, Memory.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUpdike, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - John Updike is the author of numerous books, including the acclaimed \"Rabbit\" novels, \u003ci\u003eCouples, In the Beauty of the Lilies, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBech at Bay.\u003c\/i\u003e He has won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1998 he received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.","brand":"Mariner Books Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50619137425682,"sku":"9780156027755","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0a005d64-3ff9-42c7-9542-045a05e5e2fa.jpg?v=1732546055","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lectures-on-literature-9780156027755","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}