Vladimir Nabokov Best Novels - April 2024

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

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 all the shades of Nabokov's imagination. They range from sprightly fables to bittersweet tales of loss, from claustrophobic exercises in horror to a connoisseur's samplings of the table of human folly. Read as a whole, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov offers and intoxicating draft of the mast... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679729976
• ASIN: 0679729976
• ISBN: 0679729976
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Lolita (Vintage International)

• ASIN: B003WUYRB8
• ASIN: B003WUYRB8
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Transparent Things

"Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero--sullen, gawky Hugh Person--to Switzerland . . .  As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after  multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride. . . . Eight years later--following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment--Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past. . . . The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, agains... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679725415
• ASIN: 0679725415
• ISBN: 0679725415
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Keys to The Gift: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov's Novel (Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History)

Yuri Leving's Keys to “The Gift”: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov's Novel is a new systematization of the main available data on Nabokov's most complex Russian novel, The Gift (1934–1939). From notes in Nabokov's private correspondence to scholarly articles accumulated during the seventy years since the novel’s first appearance in print, the work draws from a broad spectrum of existing material in a succinct and coherent way, as well as providing innovative analyses. The first part of the monograph, "The Novel," outlines the basic properties of The Gift ( plot, characters, style, and motif... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1934843970
• ASIN: 1934843970
• ISBN: 1934843970
• Manufacturer: Academic Studies Press

Laughter in the Dark (Vintage International)

• ASIN: B004KABE1K
• ASIN: B004KABE1K
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse, Vol. 2

When Vladimir Nabokov first published his controversial translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin in 1964, the great majority of the edition was taken up by Nabokov’s witty and detailed commentary. Presented here in its own volume, the commentary is a unique and exhaustive scholarly masterwork by one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers―a work that Nabokov biographer Brian Boyd calls “the most detailed commentary ever made on” Onegin and “indispensable to all serious students of Pushkin’s masterpiece.”In his commentary, Nabokov seeks to illuminate every possible nuance of... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0691019045
• ASIN: 0691019045
• ISBN: 0691019045
• Brand: Brand: Princeton University Press
• Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

Mary

Mary is a gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia--Nabokov's first novel.  In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of seriocomic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair.  His memories of Mary are suffused with the freshness of youth and the idyllic ambience of pre-revolutionary Russia.  In stark contrast is the decidedly unappealing boarder living in the room next to Ganin's, who, he discovers, is Mary's husband, temporarily separated from her by the Revolution but expecting her imm... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679726209
• ASIN: 0679726209
• ISBN: 0679726209
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Enchanter

The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov's classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and subconscious coquetry reveal, to his mind, a special bud on the verge of bloom.

• ASIN: 0679728864
• ASIN: 0679728864
• ISBN: 0679728864
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Vladimir Nabokov N(1899-1977) Russian-American Novelist Opening Lines Of The Autograph Manuscript Of His Novel Ada Poster Print by (24 x 36)

Vladimir Nabokov /N(1899-1977). Russian-American Novelist. Opening Lines Of The Autograph Manuscript Of His Novel, 'Ada.' is a licensed reproduction that was printed on Premium Heavy Stock Paper which captures all of the vivid colors and details of the original. The overall paper size is 24.00 x 36.00 inches. This print is ready for hanging or framing and would make a great addition to your home or office decor.

• ASIN: B07CG8WF4Y
• ASIN: B07CG8WF4Y
• Brand: Posterazzi
• Size: 24 x 36 Inch
• Manufacturer: Granger Collection

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Published 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.  But more: 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 V... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679725229
• ASIN: 0679725229
• ISBN: 0679725229
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Defense

Nabokov's third novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive,  distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life.  His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster--but at a cost:  in Luzhin' s obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality.   His own world falls apart during a crucial championship match, when the intricate defense he has devised withers  u... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679727221
• ASIN: 0679727221
• ISBN: 0679727221
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

• ASIN: 0679727299
• ASIN: 0679727299
• ISBN: 0679727299
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Rust & Stardust: A Novel

“Greenwood’s glowing dark ruby of a novel brilliantly transforms the true crime story that inspired Nabokov’s Lolita. Shatteringly original and eloquently written....So ferociously suspenseful, I found myself holding my breath.” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of YouCamden, NJ, 1948. When 11 year-old Sally Horner steals a notebook from the local Woolworth's, she has no way of knowing that 52 year-old Frank LaSalle, fresh out of prison, is watching her, preparing to make his move. Accosting her outside the store, Frank convinces Sally that he’s an F... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0791JX8WS
• ASIN: B0791JX8WS
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

Invitation to a Beheading

Like 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... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679725318
• ASIN: 0679725318
• ISBN: 0679725318
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

A Hero Of Our Time (World's Classics)

The first major Russian novel, A Hero of Our Time was both lauded and reviled upon publication. Its dissipated hero, twenty-five-year-old Pechorin, is a beautiful and magnetic but nihilistic young army officer, bored by life and indifferent to his many sexual conquests. Chronicling his unforgettable adventures in the Caucasus involving brigands, smugglers, soldiers, rivals, and lovers, this classic tale of alienation influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov in Lermontov’s own century, and finds its modern-day counterparts in Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, the novels of Chuck Pal... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0875010490
• ASIN: 0875010490
• ISBN: 0875010490
• Brand: Abrams Books
• Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

A Hero of Our Time : Foreword by Vladimir Nabokov, Translation by Vladimir Nabokov and Dmitri Nabokov

9780679413271

• UPC: 25242023
• Rating: 4.2

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

A collection of 65 stories about human relations, human nature, and political satire includes 11 first-time English

• UPC: 380543
• Rating: 3.5

Vladimir Nabokov: Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951 (LOA #87) : The Real Life of Sebastian Knight / Bend Sinister / Speak, Memory

This Library of America volume is the first of three volumes presenting the most authoritative versions of the English works of the brilliant Russian émigré, Vladimir Nabokov.The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the first novel

• UPC: 25640602
• Rating: 4.0

Vladimir Nabokov: Novels 1955-1962 (LOA #88) : Lolita / Lolita (screenplay) / Pnin / Pale Fire

A collection of the author's best known

• UPC: 603440

Lolita

A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around

• UPC: 1060911
• Rating: 3.994

Lolita

Los adjetivos de escandalosa, inmoral, decadente y ultrajante acompanaron largo tiempo a Lolita, hoy ya considerada una obra maestra de la literatura. La historia de la obsesion de Humbert Humbert, un profesor cuarenton, por la

• UPC: 105806357
• Rating: 3.994

Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, The - Audiobook

From Vladimir Nabokov, the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and the 1950s, these

• UPC: 287870418

Cuentos Completos. Vladimir Nabokov / Complete Stories. Vladimir Nabokov

9788466334662

• UPC: 55058017

Risa En La Oscuridad

Albinus, un respetable critico de arte, se enamora de la joven Margot. Pero aparece una tercera persona: Axel Rex, un joven y cinico artista. Y cuando Albinus tiene un accidente, queda ciego y se retira

• UPC: 243057877
• Rating: 3.6

The Nabokov Russian Translation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland : Anya V Stranye Chudes

World-renowned author Vladimir Nabokov presents a brilliant translation of Alice in Wonderland that skillfully handles its puns, parodies, and language. Clear, witty, and wonderfully readable. Perfect for students. 12

• UPC: 28726924
• Rating: 3.96