The Annotated Lolita
Revised and Updated
Written by Vladimir Nabokov

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 23, 1991
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72729-3 (0-679-72729-9)

This is the definitive annotated text of the modern classic. It assiduously glosses Lolita's extravagant wordplay and its frequent literary allusions, parodies, and cross references.



"...the reader of Lolita attempts to arrive at some sense of its overall 'meaning,' while at the same time having to struggle...with the difficulties posed by the... Read more >

Bend Sinister

Written by Vladimir Nabokov

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 14, 1990
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72727-9 (0-679-72727-2)

The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel in his oeuvre, Bend Sinister is filled with veiled puns and delightful wordplay. It is first and foremost a compelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a police... Read more >

The Enchanter

Written by Vladimir Nabokov

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 20, 1991
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72886-3 (0-679-72886-4)

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

The Eye

Written by Vladimir Nabokov

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 5, 1990
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72723-1 (0-679-72723-X)

Nabokov's fourth novel, The Eye is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances. Nabokov's protagonist, Smurov, is a lovelorn, excruciatingly self-conscious Russian émigré living in prewar Berlin, who commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only... Read more >

The Gift

Written by Vladimir Nabokov

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72725-5 (0-679-72725-6)

The Gift is the last novel Nabokov wrote in his native language. It is 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... Read more >

Glory

Written by Vladimir Nabokov

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 5, 1991
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72724-8 (0-679-72724-8)

This is the wry and ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twenty-two-year-old Russian émigré of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him. Convinced that his life is about to be wasted and hoping to impress his love, he decides to embark upon a "perilous... Read more >

Invitation to a Beheading

Written by Vladimir Nabokov

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 19, 1989
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72531-2 (0-679-72531-8)

Invitation to a Beheading embodies the vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude," an imaginary crime that defines definition. Cincinnatus spends his final days in a jail where he is visited by chimerical... Read more >

King, Queen, Knave

Written by Vladimir Nabokov

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 17, 1989
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72340-0 (0-679-72340-4)

This is Nabokov's story of Dreyer, a wealthy boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium, who is repugnant to his wife, Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle's condescension... Read more >

Laughter in the Dark

Written by Vladimir Nabokov

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 17, 1989
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72450-6 (0-679-72450-8)

Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit... Read more >

Look at the Harlequins!

Written by Vladimir Nabokov

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 16, 1990
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72728-6 (0-679-72728-0)

As intricate as a house of mirrors, Nabokov's last novel is an ironic play on the Janus-like relationship between fiction and reality. It is the autobiography of the eminent Russian-American author Vadim Vadimovich N. (b. 1899), whose life bears an uncanny resemblance to Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, (though the two are not... Read more >

The Luzhin Defense

Written by Vladimir Nabokov

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 11, 1990
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72722-4 (0-679-72722-1)

Nabokov's third novel, The Defense, is the story of Luzhin, a young outcast boy who takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. Luzhin's imminent rise to the rank of grandmaster creates havoc in his real one as the solace of his prodigious talent and the... Read more >

Mary

Written by Vladimir Nabokov

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 20, 1989
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72620-3 (0-679-72620-9)

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 serio-comic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and future, relives his first love affair. His memories of Mary are suffused with the... Read more >

The Original of Laura

Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Preface by Dmitri Nabokov

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27189-1 (0-307-27189-7)

When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But Nabokov’s wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband’s last work, and when she... Read more >

Pnin

Written by Vladimir Nabokov

Format: Hardcover, 184 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: April 6, 2004
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4198-5 (1-4000-4198-8)

“Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.” —John Updike

One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heartrending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to... Read more >

Pnin

Written by Vladimir Nabokov

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 18, 1989
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72341-7 (0-679-72341-2)

Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is a tireless lover who writes to his treacherous Liza: "A genius needs to keep so much in store, and thus cannot offer you the... Read more >

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Written by Vladimir Nabokov

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 4, 1992
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72726-2 (0-679-72726-4)

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story--subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax--about the mysterious life of a famous writer. After Knight's death, his half-brother sets out to penetrate the enigma of his life; his search proves to be a story as intriguing as any... Read more >

Speak, Memory

Written by Vladimir Nabokov

Format: Hardcover, 344 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: March 23, 1999
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-40553-2 (0-375-40553-4)

This edition of Speak, Memory includes a never-before-published Chapter 16 exclusive to this Everyman's Library edition.

From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and... Read more >

Speak, Memory
An Autobiography Revisited
Written by Vladimir Nabokov

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 28, 1989
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72339-4 (0-679-72339-0)

First published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence, then assiduously revised in 1966, Speak, Memory is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works.

"When he is writing about someone or something he loves, he is irresistible; when he is writing... Read more >

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Written by Vladimir Nabokov

Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 9, 1996
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72997-6 (0-679-72997-6)

From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, 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... Read more >

The Tragedy of Mister Morn

Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Translated by Thomas Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-96081-8 (0-307-96081-1)

For the first time in English, Vladimir Nabokov’s earliest major work, written when he was only twenty-four: his only full-length play, introduced by Thomas Karshan and beautifully translated by Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy.

The Tragedy of Mister Morn was written in the winter of 1923­­–1924, when Nabokov was completely unknown. The five-act... Read more >

Transparent Things

Written by Vladimir Nabokov

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 23, 1989
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72541-1 (0-679-72541-5)

"Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero, Hugh Person, to Switzerland...As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., but falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride...Eight years later...Hugh makes a lone sentimental... Read more >

Vintage Nabokov

Written by Vladimir Nabokov

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3401-7 (1-4000-3401-9)

“It was Nabokov’s gift to bring paradise wherever he alighted.” —John Updike, The New York Review of Books

Vladimir Nabokov’s brilliant, endlessly inventive imagination and pyrotechnical literary genius continue to astound in the stories “The Return of Chorb,” “The Aurelian,” “Russian Spoken Here,” “Cloud, Castle, Lake,” “Mademoiselle O,” “A Forgotten Poet,” “Time... Read more >

Doctor Zhivago

Written by Boris Pasternak
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Format: Trade Paperback, 704 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-39095-0 (0-307-39095-0)

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is the only paperback edition now available of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Read more >

Doctor Zhivago

Written by Boris Pasternak
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-37769-2 (0-307-37769-5)

Boris Pasternak’s Nobel Prize–winning masterpiece comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the award-winning translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and to whom, The New York Review of Books declared, “the English-speaking world is indebted.”

First published in Italy in 1957 amid... Read more >

The Foundation Pit

Written by Andrey Platonov
Afterword by Robert Chandler
Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-305-3 (1-59017-305-8)

Translated from the Russian by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson
With notes and an afterword by Robert Chandler and Olga Meerson

In Andrey Platonov’s The Foundation Pit, a team of workers has been given the job of digging the foundation of an immense edifice, a palatial home for the perfect future... Read more >