Introducing Little Clothbound Classics irresistible mini editions of short stories novellas and essays from the worlds greatest writers designed by the awardwinning Coralie BickfordSmithCelebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna from haunted New England to a sundrenched Mediterranean island and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon Beautifully designed and printed these collectible editions are bound in colourful tactile cloth and stamped with foilThirteen ingeniously crafted stories make up Vladimir Nabokovs bakers dozen In some of these stories shadowy people pass through cooped up by life with nowhere to escape In others elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness which flutter away before they can be snatched waylay their victims Like the shimmer of the sea the gleam of a glass caught by the sun these stories sparkle brilliantly only to dissolve again
