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(1966) Nabokov's Quartet (1968) Nabokov's Congeries (reprinted as The Portable Nabokov (1971)) (1973) A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1975) Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1976) Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1995) The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (alternative title The Collected Stories; complete collection of all short stories)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov [b] (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ nɐˈbokəf] ⓘ; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 [a] – 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.
Lolita. Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov that addresses the controversial subject of hebephilia. The protagonist is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He describes his obsession with a 12-year-old "nymphet", Dolores Haze, whom he ...
Pale Fire is a 1962 novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is presented as a 999-line poem titled "Pale Fire", written by the fictional poet John Shade, with a foreword, lengthy commentary and index written by Shade's neighbor and academic colleague, Charles Kinbote. Together these elements form a narrative in which both fictional authors are ...
1969 ( McGraw Hill) Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969. Ada began to materialize in 1959, when Nabokov was flirting with two projects, "The Texture of Time" and "Letters from Terra." In 1965, he began to see a link between the two ideas, finally composing a unified novel from February 1966 to ...
Pnin ( Russian pronunciation: [pnʲin]) is Vladimir Nabokov 's 13th novel and his fourth written in English; it was published in 1957. The success of Pnin in the United States launched Nabokov's career into literary prominence. Its eponymous protagonist, Timofey Pavlovich Pnin, is a Russian -born assistant professor in his 50s living in the ...
1935–1936. Invitation to a Beheading ( Russian: Приглашение на казнь, lit. ' Invitation to an execution ') is a novel by Russian American author Vladimir Nabokov. It was originally published in Russian from 1935 to 1936 as a serial in Sovremennye zapiski, a Russian émigré magazine. In 1938, the work was published in Paris ...
The book is dedicated to his wife, Véra, and covers his life from 1903 until his emigration to America in 1940.The first twelve chapters describe Nabokov's remembrance of his youth in an aristocratic family living in pre-revolutionary Saint Petersburg and at their country estate Vyra, near Siverskaya.
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