{"product_id":"mc-think-write-speak","title":"MC: Think, Write, Speak","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful' - Philip Hensher, \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003eThe last major collection of Nabokov's published material, \u003ci\u003eThink, Write, Speak\u003c\/i\u003e brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordinary career.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nEach phase of his wandering life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at Cambridge in 1921, through his fame in the aftermath of the publication of \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e to the final, fascinating interviews given shortly before his death in 1977.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nIntroduced and edited by his biographer Brian Boyd, this is an essential work for anyone who has been drawn into Nabokov's literary orbit. Here he is at his most inspirational, curious, playful, misleading and caustic. The seriousness of his aesthetic credo, his passion for great writing and his mix of delight and dismay at his own, sudden global fame in the 1950s are all brilliantly delineated.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"Vladimir Nabokov","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46928890036402,"sku":"9780141398389","price":345.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/mc-think-write-speak","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}