Download or read book Despair written by Владимир Владимирович Набоков and published by TarcherPerigee. This book was released on 1970 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder.