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Author Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.

Title The enchanter / Vladimir Nabokov ; translated by Dmitri Nabokov.

Publication Info. New York : Putnam, [1986]
©1986

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F NABOKOV    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F NABOKOV    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FICTION NABOKOV    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC NABOKOV    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-NABOKOV    Missing
Description 127 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Note Translation of: Volshebnik.
Ill. on lining papers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Nabokov described this novella, written in Paris in 1939 but only published twenty years later, as 'the first little throb of Lolita'. The plot is similar: a middle-aged man wedding an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her daughter. However, The Enchanter has an utterly different atmosphere, as time, place and even names remain a mystery. Nabokov transforms his protagonist's attempts to lull his twelve-year-old step-daughter into a state of 'enchantment' into a graceful, chilling fairytale.
Subject Russian fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English.
Russian fiction. (OCoLC)fst01102012
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
Psychological fiction.
Added Title Volshebnik. English
Other Form: Online version: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Volshebnik. English. Enchanter. New York : Putnam, ©1986 (OCoLC)646834516
ISBN 0399132112
9780399132117
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