Authors:Vladimir Nabokov,  Dmitri Nabokov,
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: laura, original
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-11-17
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0307271897
ISBN-13: 9780307271891

Book Description 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 died, the fate of the manuscript fell to her son. Dmitri Nabokov, now seventy-five--the Russian novelist’s only surviving heir, and translator of many of his books--has wrestled for three decades with the decision of whether to honor his father’s wish or preserve for pos

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: opinions, strong
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1990-03-17
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0679726098
ISBN-13: 9780679726098

In this collection of interviews, articles, and editorials, Nabakov ranges over his life, art, education and politics amoung other subjects.

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: defense, luzhin
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1990-08-11
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0679727221
ISBN-13: 9780679727224

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 As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive,  distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates.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

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: fire, pale
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1989-04-23
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0679723420
ISBN-13: 9780679723424

Like Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire is a masterpiece that imprisons us inside the mazelike head of a mad émigré. Yet Pale Fire is more outrageously hilarious, and its narrative convolutions make the earlier book seem as straightforward as a fairy tale. Here’s the plot--listen carefully! John Shade is a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A. He writes a 999-line poem about his life, and what may lie beyond death. This novel (and seldom has the word seemed so woefully inadequate) consists of both that poem and an extensive commentary on it by the poet’s crazy neighbor, Charle

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: New Directions
Keywords: directions, paperbook, new, knight, life, sebastian, real
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-07-17
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0811217507
ISBN-13: 9780811217507

Nabokov’s first novel in English, one of his greatest and most overlooked, with a new Introduction by Michael Dirda.The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Nabokov’s first novel in English, was completed in Paris in 1938, first published by New Directions in 1941, reissued in 1959 to wide critical acclaim and now relaunched again, with an appreciative introduction by Pulitzer-Prize winning critic Michael Dirda. This, the narrator tells us, is the real life of famous author Sebastian Knight, the inside story. After Knight’s death,

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: revisited, autobiography, memory, speak
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1989-08-28
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0679723390
ISBN-13: 9780679723394

A rich evocation of Nabokov’s life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including LOLITA, PNIN, DESPAIR, THE GIFT and others.

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: lolita
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1989-03-13
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0679723161
ISBN-13: 9780679723165

The hilarious and tragic story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged Russian man who feels passion only for young the "nymphet" Dolores Haze, whom he renames Lolita.