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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A landmark collection of poetic works by the acclaimed author features pieces spanning his entire literary career, from 1914's "Music" to 1974's "To Vera" as well as more recently translated works, including "The University Poem" and "To Russia."
5) The gift
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write--a book very much like The Gift itself.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam
Pub. Date
1959.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Written when he was only 24, this is Nabokov's earliest major work and his only full-length play, presented here for the first time in English, the story of which involves an incognito king whose love for the wife of a banished revolutionary brings on the chaos the king has fought to prevent.
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
In this collection of interviews, articles, and editorials, Nabokov ranges over his life, art, education, politics, literature, movies, and modern times, among other subjects. Strong Opinions offers his trenchant, witty, and always engaging views on everything from the Russian Revolution to the correct pronunciation of Lolita.
Author
Series
Library of America ; 89
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
"Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969), the longest of Nabokov's novels, is a witty and parodic account of a man's lifelong love for his sister. All of his favorite themes and most characteristic techniques are woven into this culminating work of Nabokov's imagination." "Transparent Things (1972) is a haunting novella of the anguished life of Hugh Person, a young American editor and proofreader: his marriage, the murder of his wife, and his lone...
12) Letters to Véra
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of letters between Vladimir Nabokov and his wife, Vera"--
"The letters of the great writer to his wife--gathered here for the first time--chronicle a decades-long love story and document anew the creative energies of an artist who was always at work,"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Library of America ; 88
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States,Library of America
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
"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...
