{"product_id":"9780156027755_lectures-on-literature","title":"Lectures On Literature","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eLolita\u003c\/em\u003e offers unique insight into works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, and others—with an introduction by John Updike.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov’s teaching, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, as he introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume collects Nabokov’s famous lectures on Western European literature, with analysis and commentary on Charles Dickens’s \u003cem\u003eBleak House\u003c\/em\u003e, Gustav Flaubert’s \u003cem\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/em\u003e, Marcel Proust’s \u003cem\u003eThe Walk by Swann’s Place\u003c\/em\u003e, Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” and other works. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers.","brand":"Vladimir Nabokov","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46898331615381,"sku":"9780156027755","price":44.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780156027755_fa1434b7-621b-4e36-8986-3539fcaf325f.jpg?v=1776888299","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780156027755_lectures-on-literature","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}