Categories: Classic Books & Novels


Despair - Modern Classics
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Paperback (30 Nov 2000)


A work of rapture - jolting, hilarious and incredibly racy Martin Amis, The Times

Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with Felix, a man he believes to be his double, reveals a frightening split in Hermanns nature. Convinced that he has found his doppelganger, Hermann uses this discovery to weave a money-making plan that leads to disguise, betrayal and eventually murder.

Filled with impudent, startling humour, and dominated by the egotistical and scornful figure of a killer who thinks himself an artist, Despair takes us into a deranged world of doubles and illusions, where nothing is quite as it seems.


Product details

Format Paperback | 176 pages
Dimensions 129 x 198 x 9mm | 134g
Publication date 04 Aug 2015
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
ISBN10 014118454X
ISBN13 9780141184548
Bestsellers rank 83,894