In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. shocked a generation when Putnam, now a part of the Penguin group, published Lolita the account of one man's longing for a very young girl in 1955. Stylish, intricate and sensuous, these wickedly inventive stories are a rich combination of humour and horror: exploring questions of literature, love, madness and memory.
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A collection of five short stories from [b:The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov 8146 The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Nabokov https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1388330159s/8146.jpg 672041], published as a Penguin 70.The five stories are loosely themed around Russians living abroad - Germany or America.This book has a high star rating (just under 4), and perhaps this effected my expectations, because reviewers loved this!These stories just didn't work for me. Some I just didn't understand the point of: A Russian Beauty, and Signs and Symbols. Some I found pointless or uninteresting: Cloud, Castle, Lake and The Admiralty Spire. Razor was amusing, but at 6 pages long, didn't justify my reading this book!Maybe there is something deep, philosophical, or intellectual that I just missed. Can't be persuaded it rates higher than a 2 for me.
