The novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium store. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she l
King, Queen, Knave
โ Scribed by Nabokov, Vladimir
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
- Year
- 2011;1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 180 KB
- Edition
- 1st Vintage International ed
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
The novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium store. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle's condescension in his aunt's bed. From the Trade Paperback edition.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
'Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacl
The return of the famous shared-world superhero books created and edited by George R. R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire For decades, George R.R. Martin โ bestselling author of A Song of Ice and Fire โ has collaborated with an ever-shifting ensemble of science fiction and fantasy icons to c
Introduction by Greg Bear Preface by Mark Cotta Vaz The giant prehistoric gorilla King Kong is one of the most recognized images in our culture. So great is the mighty Kongs hold on the popular imagination that his storya gripping yarn of man versus nature, coupled with a fantastical update of th