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Vladimir Nabokov
Takes us into the prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come.
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Hilarious, intelligent and moving, Pnin is the tale of a generation irrevocably severed from its past
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Nabokov's early novel about a chess-playing genius, reissuing in Modern Classics as part of the Nabokov relaunch
Vladimir Nabokov's early novel is the dazzling story of the coarse, strange yet…
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Includes sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy that display a range of inventiveness, with fairy tales, intellectual games and glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss.
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A romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle’s country estate, in a ‘dream-bright’ America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross…
Sigi Jottkandt
The Nabokov Effect attends to the 'lettrocalamity' that occurs when literature and cinema collide in Vladimir Nabokov's work. The result is an assault on teleological models, and an opening onto…
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Mikhail Lermontov
'I remain in unchanged admiration for this bold, headstrong, carefree undertaking, a first novel published when the author was twenty-five, which proved to be the first prose masterpiece in Russian'…
Linking various minor events, this work switches back-and-forth producing an illusion of impetus.
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This first novel published by Vladamir Nabokov tells the story of a man, spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by…
Features a collection of Nabokov’s poems span the decades of his career, from ‘Music’, written in 1914, to the short, playful ‘To Vera’, composed in 1974. this title also includes…
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Thirteen strangely wrought stories make up Nabokov’s baker’s dozen.
In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, mangled by it, with nowhere to escape to…
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady’s twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he’ll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is…
Thirteen ingeniously crafted stories make up Vladimir Nabokov's baker's dozen.
Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition
An autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers…
‘Such a beautiful and mysterious book’ Zadie Smith Nabokov’s 999-line poem written by the reclusive genius John Shade
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Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he’ll do anything to possess. Is he in love or…
The now classic story of Humbert Humbert’s obsession with the twelve-year-old Lolita.
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Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, ‘to fix once for all the perilous…
Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with a man he…
The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade’s editor…
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Paul Benedict Grant
The first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov's humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick, sexual and scatological humour
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Stephen H. Blackwell
This book explores how Vladimir Nabokov wove his deep love of trees throughout all his works, granting them a powerful role in the development of his most significant themes.
Dr Julie Loison-Charles
Exploring the deeply translational and transnational nature of the writings of Vladimir Nabokov, this book argues that all his work is unified by the permanent presence of three cultures and…
Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart of campus America. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this…
Wang Xiaoling
This book explores Vladimir Nabokov's literary thoughts, which blend Russian traditions, American values, European heritage, and multiculturalism, manifesting the cosmopolitan character of his writings and aesthetic ideas.
Fredson Bowers,Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
The acclaimed author of Lolita offers unique insight into works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, and others – with an introduction by John Updike.
A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Boyd and Tolstoy.
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Martin Amis
Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed.
Vernon
This is the first book in English to devote a chapter to each of Nabokov's novels, in both Russian and English. Supplementary essays discuss Speak, Memory and other non-fiction, plus…
Nabokov
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.
A chilling story of obsession and madness. Luzhin, a distracted, withdrawn boy, takes up chess as a refuge from everyday life. As he rises to grandmaster, the game of chess…
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A novella in which a middle-aged man weds an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her daughter.
Dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz.
Dr Philip Wild, a man of brilliance, wit, fortune and tremendous bulk, is used to suffering humiliations at the hands of his wife, the younger, slender, and rudely promiscuous Flora…
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Peter Nabokov
Two Leggings was a legendary Crow warrior who lived in the 19th century. In this beautifully written biography, Peter Nabokov brings his story to life, tracing his rise from a…
Vladimir Nabokov’s brilliant, endlessly inventive imagination and pyrotechnical literary genius continue to astound in the stories The Return of Chorb, The Aurelian, Russian Spoken Here, Cloud, Castle, Lake, Mademoiselle O…
This, the narrator tells us, is the real life of famous author Sebastian Knight, the inside story. After Knight’s death, his half-brother sets out to penetrate the mystery of the…
A compelling portrait of cultural transition and assimilation via the saga of one Acoma Pueblo Indian family
Born in 1861 in New Mexico’s Acoma Pueblo, Edward Proctor Hunt lived a…
Berlin in the late twenties provides the setting for this novel about a woman’s scheme to murder her husband to live on his money with his nephew.
Traces the bleak life of Hugh Person through murder, madness, prison and trips to Switzerland. This novel sinks into the transparent things of the world that surround this one Person…
