Author: Stacy Schiff
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: nabokov, vladimir, mrs, vera
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2000-04-04
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0375755349
ISBN-13: 9780375755347
Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both "monumental" (The Boston Globe) and "utterly romantic" (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff’s Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov--the émigré author of Lolita; Pale Fire; and Speak, Memory--wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, Véra, and third for no one at all."Without my wife," he once noted, "I wouldn’t have written a single novel." Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: chronicle, family, ardor, ada
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 1990-02-19
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0679725229
ISBN-13: 9780679725220
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 the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat.This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseud
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: Brian Boyd
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: years, russian, nabokov, vladimir
Number of Pages: 619
Published: 1993-01-11
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 0691024707
ISBN-13: 9780691024707
This first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of twentieth-century writers, finally allows us full access to the dramatic details of his life and the depths of his art. An intensely private man, Nabokov was uprooted first by the Russian Revolution and then by World War II. Transformed into a permanent wanderer, he did not achieve fame until late in life, with the success of Lolita. In this first of two volumes, Brian Boyd vividly describes the liberal milieu of the aristocratic Nabokovs, their escape from Russia, Nabokov’s education at Cambridge, and the mu
Author: Brian Boyd
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: years, american, nabokov, vladimir
Number of Pages: 804
Published: 1993-01-11
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 0691024715
ISBN-13: 9780691024714
The story of Nabokov’s life continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940. He found that supporting himself and his family was not easy--until the astonishing success of Lolita catapulted him to world fame and financial security.
Authors:Vladimir Nabokov, Fredson Bowers,
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: literature, lectures
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2002-12-16
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0156027755
ISBN-13: 9780156027755
For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers; Introduction by John Updike; illustrations.
Author: Lucy Maddox
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: english, novels, nabokov
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2010-03-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0820334898
ISBN-13: 9780820334899
Lucy Maddox’s sensitive treatment of Nabokov’s eight finished novels written in English—Pale Fire, Ada, Lolita, Bend Sinister, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Transparent Things, Look at the Harlequins! and Pnin—approaches the novelist’s work as significant fiction with its own integrity. Maddox provides the kind of discursive introduction that makes Nabokov’s complex work more accessible, focusing on the relationship between the eccentric, artificial structures of the novels and their deeply traditional, humanistic themes. While the forms of the novels are idiosyncratic and
