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 LolitaBest Price: $4.99 Lolita is a beautifully-written book about a man and his sexual relationship with a young girl.... |  The Annotated Lolita: Revised and UpdatedBest Price: $11.24 Whether you like 'Lolita' depends on whether Nabokov is successful in sucking you into his... |  Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Signet Classics)Best Price: $1.17 After becoming involved with a production of Jekyll & Hyde, the musical, in the local... |  Pale FireBest Price: $7.48 As someone who reads and interprets American fiction for a living (pity me), this is the first... |  A Bend in the RiverBest Price: $7.48 The first half is engaging, optimistic and full of potential. The second half is a slog, loses... |
 Mama DayBest Price: $5.27 I'm still not sure how I felt about this book. There were some interesting literary... |  The Women of Brewster Place (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)Best Price: $5.00 I fell in love with Naylor after reading this book. It speaks to the human spirit. It speaks of... |  The Essential Neruda: Selected PoemsBest Price: $10.13 It's difficult to read Neruda and remain intact. "Of all that I was, I bear only these... |  Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual Language Edition (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.21 "Clasping my arms like a climbing plant the leaves garnered your voice, that was slow and... |  PninBest Price: $5.75 Nabokov's brilliant and evocative prose style once again comes through in this elegant novel... |
 100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor (Texas Pan American Series)Best Price: $8.98 This is a beautifully crafted book. If you want to impress your wife, leave one of these love... |  Invitation to a BeheadingBest Price: $6.99 The musings of Kafka and other Eastern European writers are among my favorite. Though Nabokov... |  The Stories of Vladimir NabokovBest Price: $10.66 This book is incredible. It contains such mastery that honestly after reading it, I can't read... |  Delta of VenusBest Price: $6.25 I had to find out what all the hype was about over this particular writer of erotic literature.... |  A House for Mr. BiswasBest Price: $7.71 I never understood why it says this is a `comic' masterpiece on the cover. It's true that A... |
 The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)Best Price: $4.15 This is truly one of the cult pieces of literature, right up there with Tropic of Cancer and... |  Miguel StreetBest Price: $7.89 If you enjoy Alexander McCall Smith's characters, you will certainly enjoy this book. Each... |  Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love" -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932)Best Price: $3.48 Well written but boring. I think watching paint dry would be more entertaining than reading this... |  The Tale of Custard the DragonBest Price: $2.00 I purchased this book as a holiday gift for "tween" members of the family. At this... |  Speak, Memory (Everyman's Library (Cloth))Best Price: $12.92 This book is an invitation to a dreamy journey into a place where words become colorfully alive,... |
 Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems (Edici?n biling?e)Best Price: $8.99 This is a wonderful collection of poems by Neruda in a bilingual edition. I'm planning to use... |  The Poetry of Pablo NerudaBest Price: $11.73 Years ago I saw the movie Il Postino (The Postman)and came to know who Pablo Neruda was. I... |  Ada, or Ardor: A Family ChronicleBest Price: $10.13 N.B.: Three stars by comparison with Nabokov's best works, not three stars as given to your... |  Linden Hills (Contemporary American Fiction Series)Best Price: $3.98 Linden Hills is one of the creepiest books I've read, and certainly one of the most enjoyable.... |  Little BirdsBest Price: $8.10 definitely not the erotica I was expecting. there's some interesting twisted stuff but if you're... |
 The GiftBest Price: $8.66 Nabokov, in his foreword, states that The Gift "is the last novel I wrote, or ever shall... |  Bailey's CafeBest Price: $3.00 I don't even know where to start. I read this book for an honors seminar in college. The book... |  On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poems of the SeaBest Price: $6.71 This is a beautiful translation of Neruda with gorgeous artwork. I gave it as a gift to a friend. |  The DefenseBest Price: $5.09 This... is the worst book... on anything... I have ever read!!! I thought this through and... |  Book of QuestionsBest Price: $7.00 Pablo Neruda is much missed as a poet and thinker. Since his death in 1973 there has been an... |
 DespairBest Price: $7.10 This book is really hard to get into, but once you push yourself, you'll really get into it.... |  LolitaBest Price: $17.82 Jeremy Irons is the perfect choice to read this Audiobook of the "infamous" Lolita.... |  Lectures on LiteratureBest Price: $11.10 Some time back, I reviewed "Crime and Punishment" for Amazon. One of the commentators... |  The Mimic Men: A NovelBest Price: $8.12 V.S. Naipaul's true genius is found in his travel books (An Area of Darkness, Among the... |  Laughter in the DarkBest Price: $7.60 Nabokov certainly was fascinated by the affect young women (girls?) had upon older men. This... |
 Love: Ten PoemsBest Price: $1.50 Mr Neruda captures the feeling and emotion of love in these written works. They are from the... |  The Milagro Beanfield War: A NovelBest Price: $2.00 The Milagro Beanfield War is a book that starts out very well. Nichols knows the people and... |  CollagesBest Price: $4.75 Boring and poorly written. The reason I bought this one because I have been miled by reading... |  Ogden Nash's ZooBest Price: $13.50 At the risk of seeming rash I recommend this book by Nash. I haven't found a rhyme for Ogden,... |  The Adventures of Isabel With Audio CD (Poetry Telling Stories)Best Price: $8.25 "Isabel met an enormous bear, Isabel, Isabel didn't care; The bear was hungry, the bear... |
 The Heights of Macchu Picchu: A Bilingual EditionBest Price: $7.29 I don't really feel it is necessary to add my humble opinion about Neruda, his poetry, or this... |  Machu PicchuBest Price: $15.92 This book about Machu Picchu in Peru is not a guide for tourists. It is a work of art drawn from... |  Lolita (Everyman's Library Classics)Best Price: $14.46 I am unabashedly a lover of Nabokov, with "Lolita" being my all time favorite. It is a... |  Eugene OneginBest Price: $13.98 I adore Pushkin's poetry and have admired it since my college days long ago. He has a... |  Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted PeoplesBest Price: $4.93 I noticed that the one-star reviews are by written by Muslims, meaning the book must be incisive... |
 A Literate Passion: Letters of Ana?s Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953Best Price: $5.76 After reading Stuhlmann's poignant introduction, it was impossible for me to read any further.... |  Bend SinisterBest Price: $6.75 Four stars only by comparison with what would follow in Nabokov's novels in English. For all but... | Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples Best Price: $4.93 I noticed that the one-star reviews are by written by Muslims, meaning the book must be incisive... | A Literate Passion: Letters of Ana?s Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953 Best Price: $5.76 After reading Stuhlmann's poignant introduction, it was impossible for me to read any further.... | Bend Sinister Best Price: $6.75 Four stars only by comparison with what would follow in Nabokov's novels in English. For all but... |
 The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume 2 (1934-1939)Best Price: $12.99 Anais Nin began a letter to her father, on the ship that carried her, her mother and brothers,... |  Canto General (Spanish Language Edition)Best Price: $12.50 Neruda's Canto General is a poetic retelling of the history of South and Central America from... |  Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight (Library of Nations)Best Price: $6.99 My 4yo son enjoyed this story and the role reversal between the usually fierce dragon and the... |  Nikolai GogolBest Price: $10.04 In this witty book about Nikolai Gogol, Nabokov captures perfectly Gogol's dreamlike,... |  The Mystic MasseurBest Price: $6.26 My review of this book probably reflects more negatively on the reviewer than it detracts from... |
 Mr. Stone and the Knights CompanionBest Price: $8.98 With the impending publication of Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death by Martin... | ||||
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