Lectures on Literature. Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Stevenson, Proust, Kafka, Joyce cover

Lectures on Literature. Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Stevenson, Proust, Kafka, Joyce

by Vladimir Nabokov

For nearly twenty years, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures on . Nabokov reveals how these masterpieces work; above all, he teaches us how to read them. Professor Fredson Bowers has edited the lectures from Nabokov's hand-written manuscripts ad teaching copies of his books, providing a text that evokes his distinctive classroom style and the brilliance of his personality. Introduction by John Updike; illustrations.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?