- Fiction, Novelists, Sebastian Knight (Fictitious character), English Novelists
En apariencia se trata de la simple biografía de un escritor, Sebastian Knight, escrita por su hermanastro «V» con la intención de corregir las falsedades vertidas sobre su persona en otra biografía, escrita con tendenciosidad y graves prejuicios intelectuales por el ex agente literario de Sebastian.
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Prestige, cool, open-ended and contemplative.
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- First published
- 1941
- Pages
- 205
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson, penguin books, "Folio"
- Editions
- 45
- Language
- English, French, Portuguese, heb
- ISBN
- 9780140188202
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков; 23 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899c – 2 July 1977) was a multilingual Russian-American novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made contributions to entomology and had an interest in chess problems. Nabokov's *Lolita* (1955) is frequently cited as among his most important novels and is his most widely known, exhibiting the love of intricate word play and synesthetic detail that characterised all his works. The novel was ranked at #4 in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels. *Pale Fire* (1962) w
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