'The illegible signature of teetering disaster'
Three great stories – The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance – the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the real pain and horror that would accompany space travel.
Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
Autor | Vladimir Nabokov |
Wydawnictwo | Penguin Books |
Rok wydania | 2018 |
Język | angielski |
Oprawa | miękka |
Liczba stron | 64 |
Format | 11.0x16.0 cm |
Numer ISBN | 9780241339527 |
Kod paskowy (EAN) | 9780241339527 |
Data premiery | 2018.03.19 |
Data pojawienia się | 2018.03.10 |
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