Revenge
Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
ISBN: 9780241747001
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 15 Jul 2025
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback / softback
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
'And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy!'
A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah and the Devil disguised as a middle-aged woman appear in these playful, exuberant stories by Vladimir Nabokov. So do a vengeful husband, a barber confronting his torturer and the author himself, as he recalls his first love. Each of the thirteen tales here enchants and enraptures us, only to gleefully confound our expectations.
ISBN: 9780241747001
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 15 Jul 2025
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback / softback
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
'And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy!'
A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah and the Devil disguised as a middle-aged woman appear in these playful, exuberant stories by Vladimir Nabokov. So do a vengeful husband, a barber confronting his torturer and the author himself, as he recalls his first love. Each of the thirteen tales here enchants and enraptures us, only to gleefully confound our expectations.
