# King, Queen, Knave

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- Authors: [Vladimir Nabokov](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2012-03-01
- Genres: Classic fiction: literary and general

## Description

Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. 'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' - Nabokov darts a glance to the reader - 'he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set here and there...

## Editions

### King, Queen, Knave

- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-577-4
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2017-07-06
- Language: en_GB

### King, Queen, Knave

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-1819-288-4
- Published: 2012-03-01
- Language: en_GB

### King, Queen, Knave

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7972-340-0
- Pages: 288
- Published: 1989-07-17
- Language: en_US

## This book in other languages

- [König Dame Bube](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/de/konig-dame-bube) (de_DE)
- [Rey, dama, valet](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/es/rey-dama-valet) (es_ES)
- [Król, dama, walet](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/pl/krol-dama-walet) (pl_PL)
- [Rei, Dama, Valete](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/pt/rei-dama-valete) (pt_PT)