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- 2012
- year of publication
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- Length
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- E-book
- Format
- Publisher
- Penguin
- ISBN-13
- 978-02-4196-148-3
- EAN
- 9780241961483
- Publication date
- 2012-12-06
- Book
- The Original of Laura · 3 editions
The publisher on this edition
The Original of Laura is Vladimir Nabokov's final, incredible unfinished novel in fragments. Dr Philip Wild, a man of brilliance, wit, fortune and tremendous bulk, is used to suffering humiliations at the hands of his wife, the younger, slender, and rudely promiscuous Flora. But in a novel, a 'maddening masterpiece' documenting her infidelities, written by one of her lovers and given to the doctor, she appears as My Laura . Dishonoured, Wild still finds pleasure in life, by indulging in self-annihilation, beginning with the removal of his toes.
