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Cpd: The Learning Classroomby Brian BoydISBN 0340946709 (0-340-94670-9)
Softcover, Hodder Education
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Dog Called Houdiniby C. Everard Palmer, Maurice Wilson, Brian BoydISBN 0590734652 (0-590-73465-2)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited
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Nabokov Russian Yearsby Brian BoydISBN 0099862204 (0-09-986220-4)
Hardcover, Random House
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Nabokov's Butterfliesby Vladimir Nabokov, Brian Boyd , Robert Michael Pyle, Dmitri NabokovISBN 0807085421 (0-8070-8542-1)
Hardcover, Beacon Press
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Nabokov's Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writingsby Vladimir Nabokov, Brian Boyd , Robert M. Pyle, Dmitri NabokovISBN 0807085405 (0-8070-8540-5)
Hardcover, Beacon Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nabokov's Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings'Book summary:Newly translated works by Nabokov on the twin passions of his life, literature and lepidoptera. A rich array of never-before-seen Nabokovia: novels, stories, poems, autobiography, interviews, diaries, and more, plus scientific and fanciful drawings by Nabokov and photographs of him in the field. The text--the richest and most varied assemblage of Nabokov's writing's available--is arranged chronologically and introduced by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle [via]
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Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discoveryby Brian BoydISBN 0691089574 (0-691-08957-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery'Book summary:Brian Boyd has already chronicled the life of Vladimir Nabokov in two superlative volumes, one devoted to the author's silver-age youth in Russia and the other to his American maturity. Now Boyd turns his attention to the great enchanter's trickiest and most unlikely triumph in Nabokov's Pale Fire. With its oddball structure--which shackles an epic poem in heroic couplets to an increasingly loony, enveloping commentary--this 1962 novel has always been a bone of contention among diehard fans. Some consider it less a work of art than a Rube Goldberg contraption, onto which Nabokov has brilliantly bolted his favorite motifs. Others call Pale Fire the author's true masterpiece, and Brian Boyd falls quite emphatically into the latter camp, arguing that the book is no mere satire on literary parasitism:
It is a reflection on the whole history of literature, on the shift from romance to realism, from the old kind of hero with whose glory the reader is invited to identify ... to the modern image of everyman as artist, the suburban Shade, in the modest circumstances of the real, coping with courage and self-control, with imagination, curiosity, tenderness, and kindness, with the fact of his mortality and his losses past and still to come.
Boyd's study is at once a shrewd and eloquent guidebook to the intricacies of Pale Fire and a revisionist argument as to its meaning. After all, Nabokovians have spent the last three decades feuding over the ultimate authorship of this double-decker narrative: could the poet, John Shade, have created both the poem and commentary? Or should both be chalked up to that nutty exegete Charles Kinbote? As he wades into this factional war, Boyd can sometimes appear only nominally less insane than Kinbote. ("The prominence of the Shadean or Kinbotean or 'undecidable' readings had not gone unchallenged. D. Barton Johnson, attending to verbal and subverbal detail, stood largely outside the Shade-Kinbote opposition when he focused on the Botkin behind Kinbote." Help!) Yet his hypothesis--which involves a ghost feeding lines to the living like a posthumous Teleprompter--makes perfect sense. And it reminds us that for all Nabokov's vaunted irony and scientific passion, he was fascinated throughout his entire career by the afterlife. Volodya as theologian? Boyd is smart and persuasive enough to make the concept stick, and to send every last one of us back to Pale Fire--immediately. --James Marcus [via]More editions of Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery:
People and Animals in Levantine Prehistoryby Brian BoydISBN 0521001781 (0-521-00178-1)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Presents of the Past: Literature in English Before 1900by Brian BoydISBN 0582718449 (0-582-71844-9)
Softcover, Pearson Education New Zealand Limited
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Speak, Memoryby Vladimir Nabokov, Brian BoydISBN 0375405534 (0-375-40553-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Speak, Memory'Book summary:Even if you already own Nabokov's earthy, otherworldly account of his astounding life, you must buy this 1999 edition. And if you've never read Speak, Memory, you must do so at once. This volume is essential because it includes the unpublished last chapter, a pseudo-review comparing Speak, Memory with another, nonexistent memoir called When Lilacs Last. (That title refers to Whitman's poem on Lincoln's assassination and to the lilacs of Nabokov's childhood home) Chapter 16 is a key to what the imaginary reviewer accurately calls a "unique freak as autobiographies go," revealing its novel-like nature and unifying themes and images (chess, puzzles, spirals, jewels, rainbows, exile, the stained-glass shadow patterns that the future casts on the present). Maybe Nabokov thought he gave too much away, and one sees the formal superiority of ending the book with chapter 15. But the added essay is a gem that dazzles and illuminates.
You have to consult biographies like Brian Boyd's for the full, remarkable facts of Nabokov's life. A millionaire at 17 (his sister danced in Diaghilev gowns with Fabergé gems at the Winter Palace), repeatedly exiled, forced to bust out of one chrysalis after another into new lives, the writer retained only the infinite wealth of his memory and art. This book is a mosaic shaped by a mind so metaphorical that, as a babe, Nabokov perceived letters as colors, the alphabet as a rainbow.
The loss of his father is at Speak, Memory's core. This memoir is worth owning for a single paragraph alone, about the sight of Nabokov senior being tossed aloft by grateful peasants he'd been generous to--a dozen or so with locked arms flinging him up in a hip-hip-hooray ritual.
There, for an instant, the figure of my father in his wind-rippled white summer suit would be displayed, gloriously sprawled in midair.... Thrice, to the mighty heave-ho of his invisible tossers, he would fly up ... and then there he would be, on his last and loftiest flight, reclining, as if for good, against the cobalt blue of the summer noon, like one of those paradisiac personages who comfortably soar, with such a wealth of folds in their garments, on the vaulted ceiling of a church while below, one by one, the wax tapers in mortal hands light up to make a swarm of minute flames in the mist of incense, and the priest chants of eternal repose, and funeral lilies conceal the face of whoever lies there, among the swimming lights, in the open coffin.
Nabokov recaptures the paradise of his youth, and acquits himself of the coldness of which some accuse him. He plays literary games, but he plays for keeps. --Tim Appelo [via]More editions of Speak, Memory:
Verse and Versionsby Vladimir Nabokov, Brian BoydISBN 0151012644 (0-15-101264-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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Vladimir Nabokovby Brian BoydISBN 0691024707 (0-691-02470-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years'Book summary:This first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of 20th-century writers, finally allows us full access to the dramatic details of his life and the depths of his art. An intensely private man, Nabokov was uprooted first by the Russian Revolution and then by World War II. Transformed into a permanent wanderer, he did not achieve fame until late in life, with the success of "Lolita." In this first of two volumes, Brian Boyd vividly describes the liberal milieu of the aristocratic Nabokovs, their escape from Russia, Nabokov's education at Cambridge, and the murder of his father in Berlin. Boyd then turns to the years that Nabokov spent, impoverished, in Germany and France, until the coming of Hitler forced him to flee, with wife and son, to the U.S.
This volume stands on its own as a fascinating exploration of Nabokov's Russian years and Russian worlds, pre-revolutionary and emigre. In the course of his 10 years' work on the biography, Boyd traveled along Nabokov's trail everywhere from Yalta to Palo Alto. The only scholar to have had free access to the Nabokov archives in Montreux and the Library of Congress, he also interviewed at length Nabokov's family and scores of his friends and associates.
For the general reader, Boyd offers an introduction to Nabokov the man, his works, and his world. For the specialist, he provides a basis for all future research on Nabokov's life and art, as he dates and describes the composition of all Nabokov's works, published and unpublished. Boyd investigates Nabokov's relation to and his independence from his time, examines the special structures of his mind and thought, and explains the relations between his philosophy andhis innovations of literary strategy and style. At the same time he provides succinct introductions to all the fiction, dramas, memoirs, and major verse; presents detailed analyses of the major books that break new ground for the scholar, while providing easy paths into the works for other readers; and shows the relationship between Nabokov's life and the themes and subjects of his art. [via]
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- Vladimir Nabokov - The American Years: ISBN 0691024715 (0-691-02471-5)
Softcover, Princeton University Press - Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years: ISBN 0691067945 (0-691-06794-5)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr - Vladimir Nabokov: ISBN 069106797X (0-691-06797-X)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr - Vladimir Nabokov : Russian Years: ISBN 0701137002 (0-7011-3700-2)
Hardcover, Random House - Vladimir Nabokov: ISBN 0701137010 (0-7011-3701-0)
Hardcover, Random House - Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years: ISBN 0691024707 (0-691-02470-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
- Vladimir Nabokov - The American Years: ISBN 0691024715 (0-691-02471-5)
Words That Count: Essays on Early Modern Authorship in Honor of MacDonald P. Jacksonby Brian Boyd , Macdonald P. JacksonISBN 087413868X (0-87413-868-X)
Hardcover, Associated Univ Pr
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