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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was born on April 23, 1899, in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Nabokovs were known for their high culture and commitment to public service, and the elder Nabokov was an outspoken opponent of antisemitism and one of the leaders of the opposition party, the Kadets. In 1919, following the Bolshevik revolution, he took his family into exile. Four years later he was shot and killed at a political rally in Berlin while trying to shield the speaker from right-wing assassins.
The Nabokov household was trilingual, and as a child Nabokov was already reading Wells, Poe, Browning, Keats, Flaubert, Verlaine... Read More
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Lolita
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 13, 1989
Price: $15.00
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story 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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 13, 1989
Price: $15.00
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story 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... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Annotated Lolita
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: April 23, 1991
Price: $19.95
The annotated text of this modern classic. It assiduously illuminates the extravagant wordplay and the frequent literary allusions, parodies, and cross-references. Edited with a preface, introduction and notes by Alfred Appel, Jr. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: April 23, 1991
Price: $19.95
The annotated text of this modern classic. It assiduously illuminates the extravagant wordplay and the frequent literary allusions, parodies, and cross-references. Edited with a preface, introduction and notes by Alfred Appel, Jr. Read more >
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Pale Fire
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 23, 1989
Price: $15.00
In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 23, 1989
Price: $15.00
In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue. Read more >
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hardcover.
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Invitation to a Beheading
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 19, 1989
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 19, 1989
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
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Lolita
Format: Hardcover, 366 pages
On Sale: March 9, 1993
Price: $22.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 366 pages
On Sale: March 9, 1993
Price: $22.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
Format: Trade Paperback, 704 pages
On Sale: December 9, 1996
Price: $19.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 704 pages
On Sale: December 9, 1996
Price: $19.00
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... Read more >
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Ada, or Ardor
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: February 19, 1990
Price: $18.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: February 19, 1990
Price: $18.00
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... Read more >
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Speak, Memory
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 28, 1989
Price: $16.00
Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and The Defense. ... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 28, 1989
Price: $16.00
Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and The Defense. ... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Pnin
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 18, 1989
Price: $14.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 18, 1989
Price: $14.00
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 >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Original of Laura
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $35.00
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $35.00
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 >
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Speak, Memory
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: March 23, 1999
Price: $20.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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 republished in 1966. The Everyman's Library edition includes, for the first time, the... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: March 23, 1999
Price: $20.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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 republished in 1966. The Everyman's Library edition includes, for the first time, the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Lolita
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $15.00
Lolita, la más famosa y controversial novela de Vladimir Nabokov, cuenta la historia de la obsesión devoradora del cuarentón Humbert Humbert por la nínfula Dolores Haze. Ternura y fascinación —además de tristeza y un humor mordaz— llenan sus páginas pero es, por encima de todo, una meditación sobre el amor—el amor... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $15.00
Lolita, la más famosa y controversial novela de Vladimir Nabokov, cuenta la historia de la obsesión devoradora del cuarentón Humbert Humbert por la nínfula Dolores Haze. Ternura y fascinación —además de tristeza y un humor mordaz— llenan sus páginas pero es, por encima de todo, una meditación sobre el amor—el amor... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Pale Fire
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: March 10, 1992
Price: $22.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to being uprooted and politically exiled twice in his life, never found fuller expression than in Pale Fire published in 1962 after the critical and popular success... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: March 10, 1992
Price: $22.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to being uprooted and politically exiled twice in his life, never found fuller expression than in Pale Fire published in 1962 after the critical and popular success... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Despair
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 14, 1989
Price: $15.00
Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 14, 1989
Price: $15.00
Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder. Read more >
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Lolita
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 26, 2005
Price: $29.95
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 26, 2005
Price: $29.95
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover,
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
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The Defense
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 11, 1990
Price: $14.95
Nabokov's third novel, The 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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 11, 1990
Price: $14.95
Nabokov's third novel, The 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... Read more >
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Laughter in the Dark
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: December 17, 1989
Price: $15.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: December 17, 1989
Price: $15.00
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 >
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The Gift
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $16.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $16.00
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... Read more >
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Pnin
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2004
Price: $18.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunder-standings... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2004
Price: $18.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunder-standings... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Eye
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: September 5, 1990
Price: $15.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: September 5, 1990
Price: $15.00
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 >
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Mary
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: November 20, 1989
Price: $13.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: November 20, 1989
Price: $13.95
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... Read more >
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King, Queen, Knave
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 17, 1989
Price: $15.00
The novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium store. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the myopic... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 17, 1989
Price: $15.00
The novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium store. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the myopic... Read more >
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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 4, 1992
Price: $15.00
"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John Updike
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. Many people knew things about Sebastian... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 4, 1992
Price: $15.00
"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John Updike
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. Many people knew things about Sebastian... Read more >
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Glory
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 5, 1991
Price: $15.00
Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twnety-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 embarks on a "perilous, daredevil project"--an illegal attempt... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 5, 1991
Price: $15.00
Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twnety-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 embarks on a "perilous, daredevil project"--an illegal attempt... Read more >
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Strong Opinions
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: March 17, 1990
Price: $16.00
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. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: March 17, 1990
Price: $16.00
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. Read more >
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