Vladimir Nabokov
2) Lolita
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.
“The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.”—The New Yorker
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the...
“The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.”—The New Yorker
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the...
Author
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."
4) Lolita
Author
Language
English
Description
The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.
“The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.”—The New Yorker
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the...
“The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.”—The New Yorker
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Here, collected for the first time in one volume, are Nabokov's English translations of Russian verse, presented next to the Russian originals, as well as three never-before-published poems written in English by Nabokov himself. Here, also, are some of his notes on the dangers and thrills of translation.
6) The eye
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
Smurov, a Russian emigre living in prewar Berlin, commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband only to suffer even greater indignities in the afterlife as he searches for proof of his existence among fellow emigres who are too distracted to pay him any heed.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Here, for the first time, the stories of one of the century's greatest prose stylists are collected in a single, comprehensive volume. Written from the early 1920s - the years of his exile from Russia - to the mid-1950s, when he abandoned the story form and turned to his English-language masterpieces Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, these stories reveal the fascinating progress of Nabokov's early development as they remind us that we are in the presence...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 88
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
Lolita (1955), Nabokov's single most famous work, is one of the most controversial and widely read books of its time. Funny, satiric, poignant, filled with allusions to earlier American writers, it is the "confession" of a middle-aged, sophisticated European emigre's passionate obsession with a 12-year-old American "nymphet," and the story of their wanderings across a late 1940s America of highways and motels. Pnin (1957) is a comic masterpiece about...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 188
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
14) Lolita
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Español
Description
Humbert Humbert attempts to justify his love for and obsession with the barely adolescent Dolores Haze, known as Lolita. Humbert's cross-country flight with his adored nymphet ends with her betrayal of him with his rival, the evil Quilty, who pursues Lolita not out of love but out of lust and selfishness, and who functions as a kind of double for the more pure-hearted (if perverse) Humbert.
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This volume brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century's master prose writers. Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was a Russian American scientist, poet, translator, and professor of literature. Critics throughout the world celebrated him for developing the luminous and enigmatic style which advanced the boundaries of modern literature more than any author since James Joyce. In a career that spanned over six decades,...
Author
Publisher
Vintage International/Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A ... 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."--
17) Despair: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder.
Author
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Un hombre que está escribiendo en su despacho es interrumpido por un duende del bosque, un concertista de piano se dispone a poner fin a su carrera, un barbero afeita al hombre que lo torturó, un soñador tímido hace un pacto con el Diablo...Los sesenta y ocho relatos de Vladimir Nabokov que se incluyen en esta edición definitiva de su obra cuentística, preparada por su hijo Dmitri, permiten disfrutar de su inconmensurable virtuosismo literario:...