King, Queen, Knave

King, Queen, Knave PDF Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679723404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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Book Description
The novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium store. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle's condescension in his aunt's bed.