Includes bibliographical references (pages 873-904).

"After a brilliant literary career in Russian, Vladimir Nabokov came to the United States and went on to an even more brilliant one in English-- earning a place as one of the greatest writers of his adopted home. Here he published the autobiography and eight novels now collected in an authoritative three-volume set. Lolita-- one of the most controversial and widely read books of its time-- is the satiric, poignant "confession" of a middle-aged European's passionate obsession with a twelve-year-old American "nymphet," and the story of their wanderings across late 1940s America. Nabokov's original film adaptation is also included. Pnin is a comic masterpiece about an émigré professor in an American college town who never quite masters its language, politics, or train schedule. Pale Fire is a tour de force, an ostensibly autobiographical poem with wildly digressive commentary by an unbalanced academic. All texts have been corrected based on the author's own copies." --,Provided by the Publisher.

"The texts of this volume incorporate Nabokov's penciled corrections in his own copies of his works and correct long-standing errors. They are the most authoritative versions available and have been prepared with the assistance of Dmitri Nabokov, the novelist's son, and Brian Boyd, Nabokov's award-winning biographer, who has also contributed notes and a detailed chronology of the author's life based on new research." --,Publisher's note.

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