# King, Queen, Knave

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- Book: [King, Queen, Knave](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/king-queen-knave) ([King, Queen, Knave.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/king-queen-knave.md))
- Authors: [Vladimir Nabokov](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-1819-288-4
- Published: 2012-03-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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...