Vladimir Nabokov: 96 books

Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first time—and placed in biographical and literary context On October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions...

Vladimir Nabokov werd op 22 april 1899 geboren in Petersburg en groeide op in grote welstand. Na de revolutie van 1917 vluchtte het gezin naar Berlijn. Van 1919 tot 1923 studeerde Nabokov Franse en Russische letterkunde en entomologie aan Trinity College in Cambridge. Daarna woonde hij in Berlijn...

From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time--display...

En un solo volumen, la edición definitiva de los cuentos de Vladimir Nabokov. Vladimir Nabokov, aunque fundamentalmente conocido por su obra maestra, la novela Lolita (1955), fue también un prolífico autor de narrativa breve. La producción en este ámbito se extiende a lo largo de más...

Nabokov nos da las pautas para una lectura sagaz, heterodoxa y apasionante de estos libros prodigiosos. Vladimir Nabokov, lejos de generalidades y teorizaciones, enseña a leer a sus alumnos, a «acariciar los detalles» y a apasionarse con la lectura de Jane Austen, de Dickens y Stevenson,...

Lecciones magistrales en las que Nabokov, un genio de la literatura, indaga en la obra de los grandes escritores del pasado. Vladimir Nabokov, exiliado de su país y con pocas esperanzas de regresar algún día, estaba capacitado como nadie para introducir a sus alumnos en la obra de los grandes...

Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. “It was Nabokov’s gift to bring paradise wherever he alighted.” —John Updike, The New York Review of Books Novelist, poet, critic, translator,...

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,...

Though we know Vladimir Nabokov as a brilliant novelist, his first love was poetry. This landmark collection brings together the best of his verse, including many pieces that have never before appeared in English. These poems span the whole of Nabokov’s career, from the newly discovered “Music,”...

For the first time in English, Vladimir Nabokov’s earliest major work, written when he was only twenty-four: his only full-length play, introduced by Thomas Karshan and beautifully translated by Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy. The Tragedy of Mister Morn was written in the winter of 1923­­–1924,...

"Der Bezauberer" ist eine erste faszinierende kürzere Version des "Lolita"-Themas, mit dem der begnadete Schriftsteller Vladimir Nabokov seinen Weltruhm begründete. Der Protagonist der Erzählung ist, wie in "Lolita", ein Mann in den Vierzigern mit pädophilen Neigungen....

The letters of the great writer to his wife—gathered here for the first time—chronicle a decades-long love story and document anew the creative energies of an artist who was always at work. No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov’s...

Vede finalmente la luce, a poco più di trent’anni dalla scomparsa di Vladimir Nabokov, il suo ultimo romanzo incompiuto, a lungo oggetto di insaziabile curiosità da parte di lettori e critici. Sentendo avvicinarsi la fine, nel 1977 lo scrittore raccomandò alla moglie di distruggere le 138 schede...

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) stamt uit een Russicshe aristocratische familie die, met achterlating van al haar bezittingen, in 1917 naar het Westen vluchtte. Nadat Nabokov in de jaren dertig aanvankelijk in Duitsland woonde, week hij later uit naar Parijs. Het feit dat zijn vrouw Véra joodse was...