Despair - Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

Category: Violence

Narrator: Christopher Lane

Tags: Violence, Thriller, Adults, Literature

7 hours and 19 minutes, 222 pages Published 1966 by G. P. Putnams Sons (first published 1934), Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965 - 30 years after its original publication - Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime: his own murder., One of the 20th centurys master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.