Vladimir Nabokov
One of the twentieth centurya™s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.
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Lolita (6)
Awe and exhiliration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, Nabokov’s most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with th…
Pnin (2)
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One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, “Pnin” features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian emigre precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a …
Vladimir Nabokov (0)
In this Readers’ Guide, Christine Clegg examines the critical history of “Lolita” through a broad range of interpretations. Although early criticism of the text polarized around ‘that’ question – is it literature or pornography? – the influence of American critics such as Lionel Trilling quickly secured canonical status…
Vintage Nabokov (0)
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“It was Nabokov’s gift to bring paradise wherever he alighted.” —John Updike, “The New York Review of Books
”Novelist, poet, critic, translator, and, above all, a peerless i…
The Gift (0)
The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished e m…
Nabokov: Novels 1955-1962 (0)
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America’s best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the “finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made” (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactl…
Nabokov: Novels and Memoirs: 1941-1951 (0)
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America’s best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the “finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made” (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactl…
Nabokov: Novels 1969-74 (0)
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America’s best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the “finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made” (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactl…
Pale Fire (0)
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The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to being uprooted and politically exiled twice in his life, never found fuller expression than in “Pale Fire” published in 1962 after the critical and popu…
Invitation to a Beheading (0)
Like Kafka’s The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for " gnostical turpitude." an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absu…
Lolita Lolita (0)
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)When it was published in 1955, “Lolita” immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov’s wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the t…
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (0)
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From one of the 20th century’s great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. “Speak, Memory” was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as “Conclusive Evidence” and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. The Everyman’s Library edition includes, for …
The Original of Laura: Dying Is Fun (0)
When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, “The Original of Laura.” But Nabokov’s wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband’s last work, and when she died, the fate of the manuscrip…
