Philip Hensher

Nabokov’s love letters are some of the most rapturous ever written

A review of ‘Letters to Vera’, by Vladimir Nabokov. Most love letters would not be worth reading. But Nabokov turns what he sees into sentences of pure magic

Vladimir and Véra: in love for life [Getty Images] 
issue 27 September 2014
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  • Letters to Véra

    Vladimir Nabokov, translated by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd

    Penguin Classics, pp. 864

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