Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible mini editions of short stories novellas
and essays from the world's greatest writers designed by the award-winning Coralie
Bickford-Smith Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics they take us from snowy
Japan to springtime Vienna from haunted New England to a sun-drenched 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
foil. Thirteen ingeniously crafted stories make up Vladimir Nabokov's baker's 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.
