Vladimir Nabokov
The Original of Laura
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This legendary novel has been the source of much anxiety and contention for Nabokov's fans — and…
Lolita
85%
Following a failed marriage to a 'large, puffy, short-legged, big-breasted and practically…
Pnin
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Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart…
Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry
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Vladimir Nabokov was hailed by Salman Rushdie as the most important writer ever to cross the…
Transparent Things
86%
»Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero — sullen, gawky Hugh Person — to…
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
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»The Real Life of Sebastian Knight» is a perversely magical literary detective story — subtle,…
Ada or Ardor a Family Chronicle
87%
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest…
Pnin
77%
Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a…
Pale Fire: A Novel
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In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the recluse…
Despair
88%
Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965 — 30 years after its original publication — Despair is the…
Bend Sinister
77%
The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever…
Pale Fire
66%
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic…
Lolita
85%
Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more…
Pnin
77%
One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending…
Un coup d'aile
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Dans les montagnes enneigées de la Suisse, Kern, un étudiant hanté par la mort,…
Lolita
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»Lolita, lumière de ma vie, feu de mes reins. Mon péché, mon âme. Lo-lii-ta: le…
Lolita
85%
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and…
Speak, Memory
86%
An autobiographical volume covering Nabokov's first 40 years up to his departure from Europe for…
Lolita
85%
The story of Humbert Humbert, poet and pervert, and his obsession with 12-year-old Dolores Haze.…
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
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From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels «Lolita», «Pale Fire», and…