FIRST VINTAGE
INTERNATIONAL EDITION, DECEMBER 1989
Copyright 1938 by Bobbs-Merrill Company
Copyright renewed 1965 by Vladimir Nabokov
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published, in different form, by Bobbs-Merrill Company in 1938. This edition originally published by New Directions Publishing Corp. in 1960. This edition published by arrangement with the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov and New Directions Publishing Corp.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich,
1899-1977.
[Kamera obskura. English]
Laughter in the dark / by Vladimir
Nabokov. — 1st
Vintage international ed.
p. cm.—(Vintage
international)
Translation of: Kamera obskura.
“Originally published in paperback by
New Directions
Paperbook”—T.p. verso.
eISBN: 978-0-307-78767-5
I. Title.
PG3476.N3K313 1989
891.73′42-dc20 89-40060
Cover art by Dave Eggers
Cover photograph by Alison Gootee.
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