# The Original of Laura

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- Authors: [Vladimir Nabakov](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabakov)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-148-3
- Published: 2012-12-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.