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Despair by Vladimir Nabokov ebook Ebook Despair currently available for review only, if you need complete ebook Despair please fill out registration form to access in our databases Download here >> Paperback:::: 240 pages+++Publisher:::: Vintage; Reissue edition (May 14, 1989)+++Language:::: English+++ISBN-10:::: 0679723439+++ISBN-13:::: 978-0679723431+++Product Dimensions::::5.2 x 0.6 x 8 inches+++ ISBN10 ISBN13 Download here >> Description: Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder. I was pleasantly surprised at the ease with which I read Despair; not as difficult as Nabokovs more noted works, Lolita and Pale Fire. It was enjoyable and amusing. Beyond the puns and jabs at Dostoevsky, it is a serious portrait of the writer and the work of writing. 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