King, Queen, Knave

by Vladimir Nabokov

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series Penguin Modern Classics

ISBN-10 0141185775

ISBN-13 9780141185774

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint Penguin Classics

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 22nd, 2001

Print length 288 Pages

Weight 216 grams

Dimensions 16.80 x 19.60 x 2.20 cms

Product Classification: Classic fiction (pre c 1945)Fiction in translation

Ksh 1,800.00

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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.

''Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius'' David Lodge

''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...

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