Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
1) Lolita
Author
Series
Everyman's library ; 133
Language
English
Description
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre 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 twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty...
Author
Language
English
Description
A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of Lolita.
"Half-poem, half-prose...a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. One of the great works of art of this century." —Mary McCarthy, New York Times bestselling author of The Group
An...
"Half-poem, half-prose...a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. One of the great works of art of this century." —Mary McCarthy, New York Times bestselling author of The Group
An...
3) Pnin
Author
Series
Everyman's library ; 272
Language
English
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Description
"A Russian-born professor struggles to cope with American idioms and idiosyncrasies at a university in upstate New York."--
Author
Series
Library of America ; 88
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States,Library of America
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
"After a brilliant literary career in Russian, Vladimir Nabokov came to the United States and went on to an even more brilliant one in English-- earning a place as one of the greatest writers of his adopted home. Here he published the autobiography and eight novels now collected in an authoritative three-volume set. Lolita-- one of the most controversial and widely read books of its time-- is the satiric, poignant "confession" of a middle-aged European's...
Author
Series
Everyman's library ; no. 188
Language
English
Formats
Description
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. Nabokov's memoir is a moving account of a loving, civilized family, of adolescent awakenings, flight from Bolshevik terror, education in England, and émigré life in Paris and Berlin. The Nabokovs were eccentric,...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 89
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
"Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969), the longest of Nabokov's novels, is a witty and parodic account of a man's lifelong love for his sister. All of his favorite themes and most characteristic techniques are woven into this culminating work of Nabokov's imagination." "Transparent Things (1972) is a haunting novella of the anguished life of Hugh Person, a young American editor and proofreader: his marriage, the murder of his wife, and his lone...
9) Lolita
Author
Series
Compactos ; 34
Language
Español
Description
"Los adjetivos de escandalosa, inmoral, decadente y ultrajante acompanaron largo tiempo a Lolita, hoy ya considerada una obra maestra de la literatura. La historia de la obsesion de Humbert Humbert, un profesor cuarenton, por la doceanera Lolita es una extraordinaria novela de amor en la que intervienen dos componentes explosivos: la atraccion perversa por las ninfulas y el incesto." --
"Poet and pervert, Humbert becomes obsessed by 12-year-old Lolita...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 458
Publisher
New Directions
Language
English
Description
Tragedy of a rich and respectable Berlin art dealer and his passion for his young mistress.
12) Bend sinister
Author
Language
English
Description
While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, this novel is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state.
16) Glory
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Book Company
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
In the 1920's, a Russian expatriate travels about Europe, attends Cambridge and makes friends.
19) Selected poems
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A landmark collection of poetic works by the acclaimed author features pieces spanning his entire literary career, from 1914's "Music" to 1974's "To Vera" as well as more recently translated works, including "The University Poem" and "To Russia."
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
©2000.
Language
English
Description
"Literature and Lepidoptera dance an elaborate pas de deux through seventy years of Vladimir Nabokov's life, from his boyhood in Russia to his life as an emigre in the Crimea, Berlin, France, the United States, and finally in Switzerland. An American literary giant, Nabokov also produced first-rate work as a scientist, and in his fiction and elsewhere eloquently advocated attention to the details of the natural world and promoted the delights of discovery....