Books by Vladimir Nabokov

Portrait of Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian-born novelist, poet, and translator whose dazzling command of language and intricate narrative structures reshaped twentieth‑century fiction. Writing first in Russian and later in English, he combined wit, erudition, and emotional precision to explore memory, desire, and the fragile boundaries between art and life.

Best known for the controversial and masterfully composed novel *Lolita*, Nabokov's body of work also includes *Pale Fire*, *Ada or Ardor*, and *The Gift*. His fiction rewards close reading, revealing layers of irony and craftsmanship that continue to inspire writers and scholars alike, affirming his place as one of modern literature's most distinctive voices.

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  • Lolita

    Anagrama, Editorial S.A. Lolita

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  • Anagrama Pnin

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  • Houghton Mifflin Lectures on Russian Literature

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    Book SynopsisThe acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, and Chekhov.In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov's teaching, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, as he introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. This volume collects Nabokov's famous lectures on nineteenth-century Russian literature, with analysis and commentary on Nikolay Gogol's Dead Souls and The Overcoat; Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons; Maxim Gorky's On the Rafts; Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilych; two short stories and a play by Anton Chekhov; and several works by Fyodor Dostoevsky, including Crime and Punishment, The

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  • Lolita

    Random House USA Inc Lolita

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    Book SynopsisNabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as a classic not to the controversy its subject matter aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. With an introduction by Martin Amis. When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. Awe and exhilaration–along with heartbreak and mordant wit–abound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on love–love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

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  • Pale Fire

    Random House USA Inc Pale Fire

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  • Ada or Ardor A Family Chronicle Vintage

    Random House USA Inc Ada or Ardor A Family Chronicle Vintage

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    Book SynopsisPublished two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist.  It tells a love story troubled by incest.  It is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue.  Ada, or Ardor is no less than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat.This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously  sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.

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  • Invitation to a Beheading

    Random House USA Inc Invitation to a Beheading

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    Book SynopsisLike Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for gnostical turpitude, an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers, an executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by his in-laws, who lug their furniture with them into his cell. When Cincinnatus is led out to be executed, he simply wills his executioners out of existence: they disappear, along with the whole world they inhabit.

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  • The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

    Random House USA Inc The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

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  • The Milky Way Publications Lolita

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  • Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Ada or Ardor

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    Book SynopsisPublished two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist.  It tells a love story troubled by incest.  It is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue.  Ada, or Ardor is no less than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat.This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously  sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.

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    £28.20

  • Pnin

    Random House USA Inc Pnin

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  • Reclam Philipp Jun. Stadtführer Berlin. Fünf Erzählungen

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  • Rowohlt Verlag GmbH Gesammelte Werke 01 Frhe Romane 1 Maschenka Knig

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    £32.00

  • Rowohlt Verlag GmbH Lushins Verteidigung

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  • Rowohlt Verlag GmbH Gesammelte Werke 03 Frhe Romane 3 Gelchter im

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  • Rowohlt Verlag GmbH Gesammelte Werke 09. Pnin

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  • Rowohlt Verlag GmbH Gesammelte Werke 10 Fahles Feuer

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  • Rowohlt Verlag GmbH Durchsichtige Dinge Sieh doch die Harlekine Spte

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  • Rowohlt Verlag GmbH Gesammelte Werke Band 17 Vorlesungen ber

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  • Rowohlt Verlag GmbH Gesammelte Werke Band 18 Vorlesungen ber

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  • Rowohlt Verlag GmbH Vorlesungen über Don Quijote

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  • Rowohlt Verlag GmbH Briefe an Vra Gesammelte Werke Bd 24

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  • Rowohlt Verlag GmbH Gesammelte Werke Band 13 Erzhlungen 1921 1934

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  • Rowohlt Verlag GmbH Gesammelte Werke Band 14 Erzhlungen 1935 1951

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  • Rowohlt Taschenbuch Wolke Burg See Smtliche Erzhlungen 1933 bis 1951

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  • Rowohlt Taschenbuch Die Mutprobe

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  • Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH Der Neue Nachbar Erzahlungen 19251934 Erzhlungen

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  • Rowohlt Taschenbuch Pnin

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  • Rowohlt Taschenbuch Das wahre Leben des Sebastian Knight

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  • Insomniac Dreams

    Princeton University Press Insomniac Dreams

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    Book SynopsisFirst publication of an index-card diary in which Nabokov recorded sixty-four dreams and subsequent daytime episodes, allowing the reader a glimpse of his innermost life.Trade Review"One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2017""A meditation on the ways our dreams unmoor us--from ourselves, from one another, from the most basic sense of duration."---Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker"This is a celebratory enterprise, an ideal present for readers who are already fans. . . . Barabtarlo has a masterly command of Nabokov’s life and work."---Eric Naiman, Times Literary Supplement"[D]ream notes are at the heart of Insomniac Dreams, and are surrounded by helpful and intriguing background material."---Michael Wood, New York Review of Books"Nabokov's actual accounts of his dreams . . . are fantastic, and show in raw form the wit, facility, and inherent discipline of language easily recognizable as Nabokov’s handiwork. The author’s fans will be fascinated by the obsessions, fears, preoccupations, and minutiae revealed without filter or guard. . . . The note cards alone . . . will fortify Nabokov scholars for years to come." * Publishers Weekly *"Utterly fascinating."---William Boyd, The Guardian"Handsomely designed . . . [t]his is a looping, chronologically complicated book full of the kind of sleep-deprived, iridescently edged complexity that likes to gather around Vladimir Nabokov’s work."---Nicholson Baker, New Republic"[T]he volume’s foray into the subconscious is a suggestive . . . addition to the canon of Nabokoviana.”"---Francisco Unger, Essays in Criticism"For the casual reader drawn to big ideas, Insomniac Dreams can be as challenging as trying to reconstruct a dinosaur skeleton from a few simple bones. But it's a fascinating read for all the questions it raises—some of which the world's best minds have been tackling for centuries."---James Plath, PopMatters"Insomniac Dreams voices [Nabokov’s] ongoing translation, rereading and appraisal of his past selves during his lifetime, as well as his assured awareness of the reader’s voracious desire to sift through the detritus of his words and thoughts."---Melissa Purkiss, Oxonian Review

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  • Princeton University Press Notes on Prosody and Abram Gannibal

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    Book SynopsisTwo appendixes from Nabokov's famous edition of Eugene Onegin: his study of versification in English and Russian poetry, and his "term paper" on Pushkin's Ethiopian ancestor. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Author's Note, pg. vii*1. Prosodies, pg. 3*2. Feet, pg. 4*3. The Scud, pg. 9*4. Tilted Scuds, pg. 17*5. Spondees, pg. 27*6. Elisions, pg. 30*7. The Origination of Metrical Verse in Russia, pg. 33*8. Difference in Modulation, pg. 46*9. Examples of Modulations, pg. 51*10. Counts of Modulations in Eugene Onegin, pg. 69*11. Other Meters and Rhythms, pg. 76*12. Differences in Use of Meter, pg. 80*13. Rhyme, pg. 82*Index, pg. 97*Foreword, pg. 107*Pushkin's Comments Published During His Lifetime, pg. 108*Pushkin's Ancestors, pg. 111*The Documents, pg. 112*Dates of Abram Gannibal's Birth and Death, pg. 114*Gannibal's Origin, pg. 116*Gannibal's Birthplace, pg. 118*Gannibal's Sister, pg. 125*Gannibal's Parentage, pg. 127*Gannibal's Enslavement, pg. 131*Gannibal in Turkey, pg. 134*Gannibal and Raguzinski, pg. 139*Gannibal's First Years in Russia (1706-16), pg. 143*Gannibal in Western Europe (1716-23), pg. 148*Gannibal and Annibal, pg. 152*Gannibal's Later Years in Russia (1723-81), pg. 153*Conclusions, pg. 155*Works Consulted, pg. 162*Index, pg. 169

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  • Editorial Anagrama Rey Dama Valet

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  • Anagrama ADA O El Ardor

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  • Anagrama Palido Fuego

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  • Anagrama Habla, Memoria

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  • Anagrama Mashenka

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  • Anagrama Verdadera Vida de Sebastian Knight, La

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  • Anagrama Desesperacion (Biblioteca Nabokov)

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  • Anagrama Una Belleza Rusa

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  • Anagrama Barra Siniestra

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  • Anagrama Opiniones Contundentes

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  • Editorial Anagrama S.A. El original de Laura morir es divertido

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    Book SynopsisA poco más de treinta años de la muerte de Vladimir Nabokov, aparece su última novela, inconclusa, objeto de insaciable curiosidad de lectores y críticos. En 1977 el escritor pidió a su mujer que, en el caso de que no alcanzara a completarla, destruyera la primera versión. Pero Véra Nabokov no pudo respetar semejante voluntad y a su muerte, en 1991, la decisión recayó sobre Dmitri, que durante años se debatió en la duda y, por último, decidió publicar una obra maestra embrionaria que nos sumerge en el singular trabajo nabokoviano. El original de Laura gira en torno a una novela dentro de la novela, o sea Laura, personaje inspirado por Flora, que es un caprichoso y sensual álter ego de Lolita. Nabokov juega con la aspiración de dominar la vida y la inmortalidad para después revelarnos que morir es divertido.Estos fragmentos de Laura seducirán a los fans de Nabokov, que encontrarán los temas eternos y las obsesiones del autor (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times); Una obra maestra in

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  • Anagrama Cosas Transparentes

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  • Anagrama Gloria

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  • Curso de literatura europea / Lectures on European Literatura

    Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Curso de literatura europea / Lectures on European Literatura

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  • Curso de literatura rusa

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    Book SynopsisLecciones 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 maestros rusos, de Gógol y Turgéniev a Tolstói, Gorki, Dostoyevski o Chéjov. Esas lecciones apasionadas y polémicas, reconstruidas por Fredson Bowers a partir de los apuntes del escritor, son una ocasión única para asistir a sus clases y releer a fondo la literatura rusa del siglo XIX.A lo largo de casi dos décadas, antes de alcanzar la celebridad con Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov impartió cursos de literatura en las universidades estadounidenses de Wellesley y Cornell, y sus clases han llegado a constituir una leyenda. No es frecuente que los estudiantes tengan por maestro a uno de los mejores autores del momento, pero tampoco lo es que un novelista añada a su talento una vocación didáctica tan nítida y eficaz, y tan libre de convencionalismos académicos.Reseña:Instruye y estimula. Un gran escritor ruso habla de los grandes escritores rusos.Anthony Burgess

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    £14.96

  • Curso sobre el Quijote / Lectures On Don Quixote

    Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Curso sobre el Quijote / Lectures On Don Quixote

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  • Wunderkammer Sueos de un insomne experimentos con el tiempo

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    Book SynopsisEl 14 de octubre de 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, un insomne crónico, comenzó un curioso experimento. Durante los días siguientes, justo al despertar, anotó sus sueños siguiendo las instrucciones que encontró en Un experimento con el tiempo, del filósofo británico John Dunne. El objetivo era probar la teoría de que el tiempo puede discurrir también hacia atrás, de modo que, paradójicamente, un acontecimiento futuro puede generar un sueño anterior. El resultado ?publicado aquí por primera vez? es un diario fascinante en el que Nabokov registró sesenta y cuatro sueños (y los subsiguientes episodios diurnos) en 118 tarjetas, que ofrecen una visión singular del artista en su ámbito más privado. Más allá de una mera anécdota biográfica, este experimento avivó el apasionado interés del autor por el misterio del tiempo, concepto que influyó en numerosas de sus novelas, incluida la obra maestra Ada o el ardor.

    1 in stock

    £23.24

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