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. The published cumulation would become his...
All happy families are more or less dissimilar; all unhappy ones are more or less alike,’ says a great Russian writer in the beginning of a famous novel (Anna Arkadievitch Karenina, transfigured into English by R.G. Stonelower, Mount Tabor Ltd., 1880). That pronouncement has little if any relation to the story to be unfolded now, a family chronicle, the first part of which is,...
New York: Time Inc., 1964. With a introduction by the author. — 218 p. Bend Sinister, one of Nabokov's early works, was published in 1947. Like the others, it has had its own little band of enthusiasts for all these years, and it seems safe to say that most of them felt that they understood the book and had missed few of its nuances. With this special edition, however, it...
Bend Sinister is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov first published in 1947.
The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man...
240 pp; 1-st Vuntage International ed. ( May 1989) Copyright 1965, 1966 by Vladimir Nabokov Despair (Russian: Отчаяние, or Otchayanie) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov originally published as a serial in the politicized literary journal Sovremennye zapiski during 1934. It was then published as a book in 1936, and translated to English by the author in 1937. Most copies of the...
224 pp, 1-st Vitage International ed. (November 1990)
Glory is the wryly 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 embarks on a "perilous, daredevil project"-an illegal attempt to re-enter the Soviet...
Vintage (September 19, 1989), 240pp. ISBN10: 0679725318 Translated from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author. 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...
292 pp,First Vintage International Edition,(July 1989) Copyright 1968 by Vladimir Nabokov King, Queen, Knave is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov (under his pen name V. Sirin), while living in Berlin and sojourning at resorts in the Baltic in 1928. It was published as Король, дама, валет (Korol', dama, valet) in Russian in October of that year; the novel was translated into...
A wealthy man in early twentieth-century Berlin is attracted to a lovaly young girl and abandons his wife and home to begin a disastrous and unrequited love affair.
Of course, no matter how keenly, how admirably, a story, a piece of music, a picture is discussed and analyzed, there will be minds that remain blank and spines that remain unkindled. "To take upon us the mystery of things"—what King Lear so wistfully says for himself and for Cordelia—this is also my suggestion for everyone who takes art seriously. A poor man is robbed of his...
Mariner Books, 2002. — 385 p. — ISBN: 0156027755. 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.
It is difficult to refrain from the relief of irony, from the luxury of contempt, when surveying the mess that meek hands, obedient tentacles guided by the bloated octopus of the state, have managed to make out of that fiery, fanciful free thing—literature. Even more: I have learned to treasure my disgust, because I know that by feeling so strongly about it I am saving what I...
Transl. and edited by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd. — Penguin Classics, 2014. — 864 p. — (Modern Classics). — ISBN 0-141-19223-2, 978-0-141-19223-9, 978-0-141-19224-6. This book was awarded Guardian Books of the Year 2014. No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. Vera Slonim shared his delight at the enchantment of life's trifles...
The Olympia Press, 402 pages
Lolita (1955) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris, later translated by the author into Russian and published in 1958 in New York. The book is internationally famous for its innovative style and infamous for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, middle aged Humbert...
Без выходных данных. Самая скандальная «история любви» XX столетия. Самое, возможно, совершенное произведение Владимира Набокова. Книга, в невероятной своей силе и необыкновенном своем изяществе взлетевшая над условностью морали и законами времени.
Look at the Harlequins! is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov, first published in
1974. The work was Nabokov's final published novel before his death in
1977. Look At the Harlequins! is a fictional autobiography narrated by Vadim Vadimovich N. (VV), a Russian-American writer with uncanny biographical likenesses to the novel's author, Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov.
Улучшенная верстка вордовского doc'а, взятого в этом разделе. Я убрал концы строк, восстановил французскую и прочую диакритику, убрал номера страниц (всё равно не известно, какое издание) и конвертировал в FB2 (раз MOBI тут не принимают). Теперь можно спокойно читать.
144 p; Vintage (November 20, 1989)
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 of youth and the...
Avon Books, 1973. First published 1958. — 176 p.
Nabokov's Dozen is a collection of 13 short stories previously published in American magazines:
Spring in Fialta;
Forgotten Poet;
First Love;
Signs and Symbols;
Assistant Producer;
The Aurelian;
Cloud, Castle, Lake;
Conversation Piece, 1945;
"That in Aleppo Once";
Time and Ebb;
Scenes from the Life of a Double...
Pale Fire, Nabokov's 14th novel and 5th in English. Pale Fire is one of the most singular and unusual novels ever published; no synopsis could hope to suggest its ingenious layers of meaning. The core of the novel is a poem of 999 lines entitled Pale Fire, by American poet John Francis Shade.
Pnin is the fourth novel written in English by Vladimir Nabokov; it was published in
1957. The book follows a Russian-born professor named Timofey Pavlovich Pnin living in the United States.
Выходные данные не указаны. — 160 p. Pnin is the fourth novel written in English by Vladimir Nabokov; it was published in 1957. The book follows a Russian-born professor named Timofey Pavlovich Pnin living in the United States.
Выходные данные не указаны. — 160 p. Pnin is the fourth novel written in English by Vladimir Nabokov; it was published in 1957. The book follows a Russian-born professor named Timofey Pavlovich Pnin living in the United States.
Borzoi Book Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. — 240 p. — ISBN: 0307593355. Хотя Владимир Набоков известен как блестящий писатель, первой его любовью была поэзия. Этот сборник представляет лучшие его стихи, в том числе многие, никогда ранее не публиковавшиеся на английском языке. Though we know Vladimir Nabokov as a brilliant novelist, his first love was poetry. This landmark...
First Vintage International Edition, New York, January 1990, 350 pages. In english. Сборник писем к редакторам, интервью с журналистами американских журналов, статьи. The interview with Alvin Toffler originally appeared in Playboy magazine. Copyright 1963 by Playboy. Reprinted by permission of Playboy Enterprises, Inc. The interview with Herbert Gold and George A. Plimpton...
One of the major novels by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel features a chess-playing genius Luzhin who discovers his gift in boyhood, rising to the rank of Grandmaster.
100 pp; 1st Vintage international ed. (Sept, 1990) Copyright 1965 by Vladimir Nabokov The Eye (Russian: Соглядатай, Sogliadatai, literally 'voyeur' or 'peeper'), written in 1930, is Vladimir Nabokov's fourth novel. It was translated into English by the author's son Dmitri Nabokov in 1965. At just over 100 pages, The Eye is Nabokov's shortest novel. As in many of Nabokov's early...
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 impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will...
Translated from the Russian by Michael Scammell with the collaboration of the author. — New York: Vintage Books, 1963. — 281 p. THE greater part of The Gift (in Russian, Dar) was written in 1935–1937, in Berlin; its last chapter was completed in 1937 on the French Riviera. The leading émigré magazine Sovremennye Zapiski, conducted in Paris by a group of former members of the...
About the author .
Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg on April 23, 1889. His family fled to Germany in 1919, during the Bolshevik Revolution. Nabokov studied french and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1919 to 1923, then lived in Berlin (1923-1937) and Paris (1937-1940), where he began writing, mainly in Russian, under the pseudonym Sirin. In 1940...
Outstanding shortstory by Vladimir Nabokov! Should I add any more? ? Read it and the world is to be better and honest! play checkmates with yourself! "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight" is the first Nabokov's story written in English. Publiished in 1941. В День своего профессионального праздника, лучшему переводчику всех времен и народов посвящается эта публикация. Смогу ли сам...
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (in some British editions, The Collected Stories) is a posthumous collection of every known short story that Vladimir Nabokov ever wrote, with the exception of "The Enchanter". The thirteen stories not previously published in English are translated by the author's son, Dmitri Nabokov.
The collection includes 65 stories (including one that was...
Edited by Brian Boyd, Anastasia Tolstoy. — Knopf, 2019. — 576 p. — ISBN: 978-1101874912, 978-1101874929. A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy. “I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak...
Transparent Things is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1972.
The darkly comic Transparent Things, one of Nabokov's final books, traces the bleak life of Hugh Person through murder, madness, prison and trips to Switzerland. One of these was the last journey his father ever took; on another, having been sent to ingratiate himself with a distinguished novelist, he met his...
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