- Series: Penguin Modern Classics
- Imprint: Penguin
- ISBN: 9780718192884
- Length: 288 pages
- Price: £7.99
King, Queen, Knave
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'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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- Paperback 2017
- Ebook 2012