FIRST
VINTAGE
INTERNATIONAL
EDITION,
OCTOBER 1989
Copyright © 1972 by Article 3C Trust under the Will of 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 hardcover, by McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, in 1972. This edition published by arrangement with the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899–1977.
Transparent things/Vladimir Nabokov.—1st Vintage international ed.
p. cm.—(Vintage international)
eISBN: 978-0-307-78732-3
I. Title.
PS3527.A15T7 1989
813’.54–dc20 89-40143
Cover art by Marian Bantjes
Cover photograph by Alison Gootee
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