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Also by Vladimir Nabokov:

The Original Of Laura, November 2009
Hardcover
Lolita, March 1999
Trade Size (reprint)
Speak. Memory, September 1989
Trade Size (reprint)
Invitation to a Beheading, September 1989
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Pnin, June 1989
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Pale Fire, April 1989
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THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA
By: Vladimir Nabokov

Knopf
November 2009
On Sale: November 17, 2009
304 pages
ISBN: 0307271897
EAN: 9780307271891
Hardcover
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When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But Nabokov’s wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband’s last work, and when she died, the fate of the manuscript fell to her son. Dmitri Nabokov, now seventy-five—the Russian novelist’s only surviving heir, and translator of many of his books—has wrestled for three decades with the decision of whether to honor his father’s wish or preserve for posterity the last piece of writing of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His decision finally to allow publication of the fragmented narrative—dark yet playful, preoccupied with mortality—affords us one last experience of Nabokov’s magnificent creativity, the quintessence of his unparalleled body of work.

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