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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков, pronounced [vlɐdʲiˈmʲɪr nɐboˈkəf]; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 – 2 July 1977) was a multilingual Russian-American novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international...
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Lolita
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...
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- 1955
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Pale Fire
Pale Fire (1962) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is presented as a poem titled "Pale Fire" with commentary by a friend of the poet's. Together these elements form a narrative in which both authors are central characters. Pale Fire has...
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Pnin
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.
Pnin, a refugee in his 50s from both Communist Russia and...
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- 1957
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Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
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...
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- May 5, 1969
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- 364691
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
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...
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The Vane Sisters
"The Vane Sisters" is the second to last short story by Vladimir Nabokov, written in March of 1951; it is famous for providing one of the most extreme examples of an unreliable narrator. It was first published in The Hudson Review and Encounter in...
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Nabokov's Congeries
Nabokov's Congeries was a collection of work by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1968 and reprinted in 1971 as The Portable Nabokov. Because Nabokov supervised its production less than a decade before he died, it is useful in attempting to identify...
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The Gift
The Gift (Russian: Дар, Dar; ISBN 0-679-72725-6) is Vladimir Nabokov's final Russian novel, and is considered to be his farewell to the world he was leaving behind. Nabokov wrote it between 1935 and 1937 while living in Berlin, and it was published...
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The Original of Laura
The Original of Laura is the incomplete final novel by Vladimir Nabokov, which he was writing at the time of his death in 1977. It was finally published, after 30 years of private debate, on November 17, 2009. Nabokov had requested that the work be...
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Nine Stories
Nine Stories is an English-language collection of stories written in Russian, French, and English by Vladimir Nabokov. It was published in 1947 by New Directions in New York City, as the second issue of a serial, Direction.
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Bend Sinister
Bend Sinister is a 1947 dystopian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov.
A "bend sinister" is a heraldic device: a bar drawn from the upper-left side of an edition in 1963, he explains, "This choice of a title was an attempt to suggest an outline broken...
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Despair
Despair (Отчаяние (Otchayanie) in Russian) was written by Vladimir Nabokov and originally published as a serial in Sovremennye Zapiski during 1934. It was then published as a book in 1936 and later translated to English by the author in 1937....
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- 1934
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Mary
Mary (Russian: Машенька, Mashen'ka), is the debut novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published under pen name V. Sirin in 1926 by the Russian language publisher "Slovo".
It is the story of Lev Glebovich Ganin, a Russian émigré, displaced by the...
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- 1926
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Invitation to a Beheading
Invitation to a Beheading (Russian: Приглашение на казнь, Priglasheniye na kazn') is a novel by Russian American author Vladimir Nabokov. It was originally published in Russian in 1935-1936 as a serial in Contemporary Notes (Sovremennye zapiski), a...
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Nabokov's Dozen
Nabokov's Dozen (1958) a collection of 13 short stories by Vladimir Nabokov previously published in American magazines. (Nine of them also previously appeared in Nine Stories.)
All were later reprinted within The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov.
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Signs and Symbols
"Signs and Symbols" is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov, written in English in 1946, and first published in The New Yorker and then in Nabokov's Dozen (1958: Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York).
In The New Yorker, the story was published...
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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, written from late 1938 to early 1939, and published in 1941 by New Directions Publishers.
Ostensibly Nabokov's first major work in English, it was composed in Paris while the author...
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Cloud, Castle, Lake
Cloud, Castle, Lake (ISBN 0-14-102235-3) is a short story anthology by Vladimir Nabokov. It features five stories: "The Admiralty Spire," "Razor," "A Russian Beauty," "Cloud, Castle, Lake," and "Signs and Symbols."
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The Defense
The Defense, is a Russian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov during his emigration in Berlin and published in 1930.
The plot concerns the title character, Aleksandr Ivanovich Luzhin. As a boy, he is considered unattractive, withdrawn, and an object...
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- 1930
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The Eye
The Eye (Sogliadatai), 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 works,...
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- 1930
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Razor
"Razor" is a short story by the Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov. It was first published (as Britva) in the expatriate Russian literary magazine Rul' in 1926, but a French translation did not appear until 1991, and an English one (by Dmitri Nabokov,...
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Glory
Glory is a Russian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov between 1930 and 1932.
The novel has been seen by some critics as a kind fictional dress-run-through of the author's famous memoir Speak, Memory. Its Swiss-Russian hero, Martin Edelweiss, shares a...
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- 1932
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Laughter in the Dark
Laughter in the Dark (Original Russian title: Камера Обскура, Kamera Obskura) is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov and released in 1932. The first English translation, Camera Obscura, was made by Winifred Roy and published in London in 1936 by...
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Look at the Harlequins!
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)...
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King, Queen, Knave
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...
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- Oct 1928
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Transparent Things
Transparent Things is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1972. It was originally written in English.
This short novel tells the story of Hugh Person, a young American editor, and the memory of his four trips to a small village in Switzerland...
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The Enchanter
The Enchanter is a novella written by Vladimir Nabokov in Paris in 1939. As Волшебник (Volshebnik) it was his last work of fiction written in Russian. Nabokov never published it during his lifetime. After his death, his son Dmitri translated the...
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- 1986
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Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories
Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories by Vladimir Nabokov. All but the last one were written in Russian by Nabokov between 1924 and 1939 as an expatriate in Berlin, Paris, and Menton, and later translated into...
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- 1975
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A Nursery Tale
A Nursery Tale (Russian: Сказка, Skazka) is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov first published in the expatriate Russian newspaper Rul' on 27 and 29 June 1926 and in the book form in The Return of Chorb in 1930. The English translation by the author...
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- 1926
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A Russian Beauty and Other Stories
A Russian Beauty and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories by Vladimir Nabokov. All were written in Russian by Nabokov between 1923 and 1940 as an expatriate in Berlin, Paris, and other places in western Europe. They appeared...
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- 1973
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The Waltz Invention
The Waltz Invention is a tragicomedy in three acts written by Vladimir Nabokov in Russian as Izobretenie Val'sa in 1938. It was first published in Russkie Zapiski in Paris in the same year. Nabokov translated it at that time into English for the...
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- 1938
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Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
Details of a Sunset and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories by Vladimir Nabokov. All were written in Russian by Nabokov between 1924 and 1935 as an expatriate in Berlin, Paris, and Riga and published individually in the emigre...
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- 1976
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The Return of Chorb
The Return of Chorb is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov written in Russian under his pen name Vladimir Sirin in Berlin in 1925. In 1929 it became part of a collection of fifteen short stories and twenty-four poems also called Vozvrashchenie Chorba ...
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- 1929
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Ada o el Ardor
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Palido fuego
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Nikolay Gogol
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Anniversary notes
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defence
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Waltz invention
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Machenka
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Lolita and Poems
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Nouvelles
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Fahles Feuer
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Autres rivages
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Poems
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Dar
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Roi, Dame, Valet
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Le Guetteur
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Pʹesy
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Novels, 1955-1962
Novels, 1955-1962 is a book by Vladimir Nabokov.
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- 1996
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Vintage Nabokov
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Poèmes et problèmes
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Partis pris
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