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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'…
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Vladimir Nabokov
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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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…
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Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition
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Hilarious, intelligent and moving, Pnin is the tale of a generation irrevocably severed from its past
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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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…
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…
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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.
Thirteen ingeniously crafted stories make up Vladimir Nabokov's baker's dozen.
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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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…
The now classic story of Humbert Humbert’s obsession with the twelve-year-old Lolita.
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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…
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…
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…
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…
‘Such a beautiful and mysterious book’ Zadie Smith Nabokov’s 999-line poem written by the reclusive genius John Shade
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…
No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov’s. From their meeting in 1921, Vladimir’s letters to his beloved Vera form a narrative arc that tells a…
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.
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…
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David Rampton
Vladimir Nabakov considers the novelist’s aesthetic precepts and practice and the character of his work and the book also gives consideration of his fiction in the larger context of the…
Neil Cornwell
In the WRITERS AND THEIR WORK series, a critical survey of the short stories, essays and five of the major novels by the Russian author, Vladimir Nabokov. It is written…
A major publishing event from one of the greatest prose stylists of our time, The Complete Short Stories of Vladimir Nabokov brings together all of Nabokov’s short fiction in one…
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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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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.
Stephen Jan Parker Parker,Greg Johnson
Understanding Contemporary American Literature was planned as a series of guides or companions for students as well as good non-academic readers. These volumes provide instruction in how to read certain…
Brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century’s master prose writers. The twenty-eight interviews and profiles in this collection were drawn from Nabokov’s numerous print and broadcast…
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Indispensable for understanding the historical, cultural and intellectual contexts of Nabokov’s work for students of English, American and Russian literary and cultural studies. This book is also essential reading for…
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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…
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…
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…
Nabokov nos da las pautas para una lectura sagaz, heterodoxa y apasionante de grandes libros europeos
Vladimir Nabokov, lejos de generalidades y teorizaciones, ensena a sus alumnos a acariciar los…
Hugh is a North American editor who goes on various trips to Switzerland over the years. As a result of these trips, he will fall in love, gets married, becomes…
Smurov, a fussily self-conscious Russian tutor, shoots himself after a humiliating beating by his mistress’ husband. Unsure whether his suicide has been successful or not, Smurov drifts around Berlin, observing…
Ganin, a young Russian exiled in Berlin between the wars, dreams of leaving the city while recalling his childhood and adolescence in Russia and his early romance with Mashenka, a…
