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Vladimir Nabokov - SEALED NEW FIRST PRINTINGBiblio.com

The Original of Laura - Penguin Classics Edition

2010ref. ABE-2676800439Penguin London 2010 SEALED PENGUIN CLASSICS EDITION.David Lodge wrote a brilliant review of this essential book. I would like to quote a section from it and I hope David Lodge will not mind me doing so: "The way the manuscript has been ingeniously edited and reproduced overcomes to a large extent the disappointment and frustration inherent in reading an unfinished and disconnected narrative and achieves an interesting aesthetic effect unintended by the author. If the manuscript had been printed in the conventional way we would have hurried through it vainly seeking some coherent plot or hint of its ultimate direction. As it is the book invites us to linger over the text's quiddity relishing not just its stylistic feats but also the physical marks on the index cards the poignantly shaky hand of an ailing author his revisions and insertions and smudged rubbings out and the tantalising space he left to be filled in later when he found the right word. 'The only way he could posse! ss her was in the most position of copulation'. Few readers will probably read the whole text continuously from the cards but the matching printed text underneath also has a defamiliarising effect on the act of reading when quite often the last line does not extend to the margin. Page 7 for instance ends 'when they and their dog do not happen' and by habit one's brain tries to make sense of this as a complete clause before turning the page to find 'to need it.' This is an effect akin to a caesura in poetry and indeed the structure of the work as a whole is more akin to modern poetry of the Eliot-Pound kind than a conventional novel shifting from one voice to another without explanatory links. Towards the end these jump cuts become more abrupt and there are more cards which bear just a few lines sometimes evidently Nabokov's notes to himself. A line from The Waste Land 'These fragments I have shored against my ruins' might have been a suitable epigraph for The Original of Laura but the last lines of page 21 would make a better one: 'Only by identifying her with an unwritten half-written rewritten difficult book could one hope to render what'. Is it as the blurb claims Nabokov's 'final great book' No. Does it contain brilliant funny astonishing sentences only Nabokov could have written Yes. Should it have been preserved and published Definitely." This new copy is still sealed. It is a heavy volume and it is undoubtedly a typical Nabokov conundrum. To all addicts of this extraordinary writer this is utterly essential. Extra postage may be needed depending on destination. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Penguin London hardcover

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Robert Gittings - FIRST PRINTING FACSIMILEBiblio.com

The Odes Of Keats & their earliest known manuscripts in FACSIMILE

1970ref. ABE-1356456827Heinemann London 1970 This first printing of the ground breaking examination of some of the greatest and most moving poetry in English is a beautiful volume. It will interest all who love Keats perhaps through the sensitive and wonderful film recently made by Jane Campion. He is a poet who leaves a strong taste and you either love it or not. Jane Campion's new film 'BRIGHT STAR' will no doubt turn many more people towards this wonderful Londoner's youthful genius and we must hope it does. This great and accessible book presents the five immortal ODES of KEATS which are his best-known work. Fourteen original manuscripts are reproduced in fascsimile enabling the reader to see how Keats conceived and then improved these extraordinary poems. This is all introduced with notes by Robert Gittings who was the great Keats scholar of modern times. If you wish to find out how Ode to a Nightingale Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode to Psyche To Autumn and Ode on Melancholy were originally presented in 1820 along with the facsimiles of the earliest known manuscripts this will satisfy your curiosity. A brilliant and satisfying volume and this copy is certainly a collectable one. The buckram binding is near perfect tight and square no bent corners. The elegantly laid out text is printed on good art paper without foxing. The book is not inscribed or written upon and bears no abuses by a library. The elusive jacket although neatly price clipped is almost perfect with a slighly sunned spine and is now protected within a mylar sleeve. There are a few very tiny tears at the top of the spine but nothing live on the jacket is affected. Immortal words from an all too mortal writer invite one to speculate on how much was lost when this man died in his prime at only twenty five. We can ask this question when we have studied these fabulous and deeply moving works. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Heinemann London hardcover

the booksniffer · United Kingdom£150.00≈ €179.15

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