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(1966) Nabokov's Quartet (1968) Nabokov's Congeries (reprinted as The Portable Nabokov (1971)) (1973) A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1975) Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1976) Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1995) The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (alternative title The Collected Stories; complete collection of all short stories)
Coat of Arms of the Nabokov family, members of an ancient Russian nobility, granted to them on 1 January 1798 by Emperor Paul I Nabokov's grandfather Dmitry Nabokov, who was Justice Minister under Tsar Alexander II Nabokov's father, V. D. Nabokov, in his World War I officer's uniform, 1914 The Nabokov family mansion in Saint Petersburg; today it is the site of the Nabokov museum.
Pale Fire is a 1962 novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is presented as a 999-line poem titled "Pale Fire", written by the fictional poet John Shade, with a foreword, lengthy commentary and index written by Shade's neighbor and academic colleague, Charles Kinbote. Together these elements form a narrative in which both fictional authors are ...
Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov that addresses the controversial subject of pedophilia.The protagonist is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert.
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969. Ada began to materialize in 1959, when Nabokov was flirting with two projects, "The Texture of Time" and "Letters from Terra." In 1965, he began to see a link between the two ideas, finally composing a unified novel from February 1966 to October 1968.
Despair is the second Nabokov novel to feature unreliable narration from a first-person point of view, the first being The Eye with the character Smurov. However, The Eye was more of an experiment condensed in a hundred-page novella , whereas Despair takes the unreliable first-person narrator to its fully fledged form, rivaling Humbert Humbert ...
The Gift is the last novel written by Nabokov in his native language. In the 1962 foreword, he indicates that it was written between 1935 and 1937 in Berlin, with the last chapter completed on the French Riviera in 1937.
The novel is often described as Kafkaesque, but Nabokov claimed that at the time he wrote the book, he was unfamiliar with German and "completely ignorant" of Franz Kafka's work. [1] Nabokov interrupted his work on The Gift in order to write Invitation to a Beheading , describing the creation of the first draft as "one fortnight of wonderful ...
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