Vladimir Nabokov

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 …

Pnin /pnjin/ is Vladimir Nabokov's 13th novel and his fourth written in English; it was published in 1957. The success of Pnin in the United States would launch Nabokov's career into literary prominence. The book's eponymous protagonist, Timofey Pavlovich Pnin, is a Russian-born professor living in the United States. …

Pale Fire is a postmodern novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is presented as a 999-line poem titled "Pale Fire", written by the fictional John Shade, with a foreword and lengthy commentary by a neighbor and academic colleague of the poet, Charles Kinbote. Together these elements form a narrative in which both …

Lolita je roman američkog književnika Vladimira Nabokova, prvi put objavljen 1955. u Parizu na engleskom jeziku, na kome je roman i napisan. Autor je Lolitu sam preveo na svoj materinski ruski jezik. Roman je slavan i iznimno cijenjen od kritike. Unatoč tome, po objavljivanju je zabranjivan i proglašavan pornografskim …