The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness

by Lila Azam Zanganeh

Book Overview

The protagonist of Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift playfully dreamed of writing "A Practical Handbook: How to Be Happy." Now, Nabokov's own creative reader Lila Azam Zanganeh lends life to this vision with sly sophistication and ebullient charm, as she shares the delirious joy to be found in reading the masterpieces of "the great writer of happiness."

Plunging into the enchanted and luminous worlds of Speak, Memory; Ada, or Ardor; and the infamous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393079929
• ISBN13: 9780393079920
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.0"