Lectures on Literature

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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 <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45032.Mansfield_Park" title="Mansfield Park" rel="nofollow noopener">Mansfield Park</a> </i> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1265.Jane_Austen" title="Jane Austen" rel="nofollow noopener">Jane Austen</a>, <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/877154.Bleak_House" title="Bleak House" rel="nofollow noopener">Bleak House</a> </i> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/239579.Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens" rel="nofollow noopener">Charles Dickens</a>, <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19075.Madame_Bovary" title="Madame Bovary" rel="nofollow noopener">Madame Bovary</a> </i> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1461.Gustave_Flaubert" title="Gustave Flaubert" rel="nofollow noopener">Gustave Flaubert</a>, <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51496.Dr__Jekyll_and_Mr__Hyde_" title="Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde " rel="nofollow noopener">Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde </a> </i> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/854076.Robert_Louis_Stevenson" title="Robert Louis Stevenson" rel="nofollow noopener">Robert Louis Stevenson</a>,<i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5279914.Swann_s_Way" title="Swann's Way" rel="nofollow noopener">Swann's Way</a> </i> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/233619.Marcel_Proust" title="Marcel Proust" rel="nofollow noopener">Marcel Proust</a>, "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/485894.The_Metamorphosis" title="The Metamorphosis" rel="nofollow noopener">The Metamorphosis</a>" by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5223.Franz_Kafka" title="Franz Kafka" rel="nofollow noopener">Franz Kafka</a>, and <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10545.Ulysses" title="Ulysses" rel="nofollow noopener">Ulysses</a> </i> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5144.James_Joyce" title="James Joyce" rel="nofollow noopener">James Joyce</a>. 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.