Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Tragedy of a rich and respectable Berlin art dealer and his passion for his young mistress.

Laughter in the Dark

Nabokov delves into the mind of a man obsessed with the idea of making his own murder a perfect crime

A Novel

Despair

Michael Scammell

Luzhin's prodigious talent at chess earns him the title of grandmaster, but his passion soon leads to obsession, and his world falls apart during a championship match when his defense fades under his opponent's surprising strategy.

The Defense

John Updike

Timeless discussions of Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Joyce, Proust, and others.

Lectures on Literature

Interviews, articles, and editorials from the 1960s and 1970s reveal Nabokov's personal views on a range of subjects, including art, education, politics, literature, movies, and modern times

Strong Opinions

The illegible signature of teetering disaster' Three great stories - The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance - the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the real pain and horror that would accompany space travel.

Lance

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Камера обскура

Includes over fifty selected interviews with the author from 1932-1977.

Uncollected Essays, Reviews, and Letters to the Editor

Think, Write, Speak

The novel is presented as a poem titled Pale Fire by a fictional author, John Shade, with an introduction and commentary by a fictional friend of his. Together these elements form a narrative in which both authors are central characters.

Pale Fire

Hoping to impress the girl he loves, Martin Edelweiss embarks on an illegal attempt to re-enter the Soviet Union, from which he and his mother had fled in 1919.

Glory

This biography begins with Gogol's death and ends with his birth, an inverted structure typical of both Gogol and Nabokov. The biographer proceeds to establish the relationship between Gogol and his novels, especially with regard to "nose-consciousness", a peculiar feature of Russian life and letters, which finds its apotheosis in Gogol's own life and prose. There are more expressions and proverbs concerning the nose in Russian than in any other language in the world. Nabokov's style in this biography is comic, but as always leads to serious issues-in this case, an appreciation of the distinctive "sense of the physical" inherent in Gogol's work. Nabokov describes how Gogol's life and literature mingled, and explains the structure and style of Gogol's prose in terms of the novelist's life.

Nikolai Gogol

A dying man cautiously unravels the mysteries of memory and creation. Vadim is a Russian migr who, like Nabokov, is a novelist, poet and critic. There are threads linking the fictional hero with his creator as he reconstructs the images of his past from young love to his serious illness.

Look at the Harlequins!

A wealthy man in early twentieth-century Berlin is attracted to a lovely young girl and abandons his wife and home to begin a disastrous and unrequited love affair.

Oleg Dark

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Защита Лужина

Thomas Karshan

Anastasia Tolstoy

Traces the experiences of an incognito king whose love for a revolutionary's wife ignites the chaos he has fought to prevent, forcing him to confront the lines between truth and fantasy.

The Tragedy of Mr. Morn

Fredson Bowers

The famous writer challenges popular views of Cervantes' classic masterpiece in nine discourses based on lectures given at Harvard from 1951-1952

Lectures on Don Quixote

Nabokov's devastating gift for social analysis is revealed in these short stories set in Germany, France, and Russia

A Collection of Thirteen Stories

Nabokov's Dozen

Scientific and literary writings from a variety of sources reveal Nabokov's preoccupation with butterflies and his desire to promote the delights of the natural world.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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