Despair

Despair

Vladimir Nabokov

3.91

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Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965 - thirty years after its original publication -Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann Karlovich, a man who undertakes the perfect crime - his own murder.

Genres: FictionClassicsRussiaRussian LiteratureNovelsLiteratureLiterary Fiction20th CenturyMysteryModern Classics

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