Vladimir Nabokov

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 …

Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped and mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. …

"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John Updike The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story -- subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax -- about the mysterious life of a famous writer. Many people knew things about …

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 caught in the …

Desespero é um livro de Vladimir Nabokov, publicado originalmente como série em 1934 e como livro em 1936, tendo sido traduzido para o inglês pelo próprio autor em 1937. Nabokov fez a segunda revisão de sua tradução no ano de 1965.

From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time--display all the …

Riso no Escuro, ou Gargalhada na Escuridão, é um romance escrito por Vladimir Nabokov e serializado na revista Sovremennye Zapiski em 1932. A primeira tradução em língua inglesa, Camera Obscura, foi feita por Winifred Roy e publicada em Londres em 1936 por Johnathan Long, o editor da Hutchinson Publishing, com o autor …

A Defesa, também intitulado A Defesa Luzhin, é um romance em russo escrito por Vladimir Nabokov e publicado em 1930. O livro foi escrito na primavera de 1929, em Le Boulou, uma estação de veraneio nos Pirenéus Orientais. Nabokov iniciou a obra e terminou-a em Berlim, no mesmo ano.

The late Vladimir Nabokov always did things his way, and his classic autobiography is no exception. No dry recital of dates, names, and addresses for this linguistic magician--instead, Speak, Memory is a succession of lapidary episodes, in which the factoids play second fiddle to the development of Nabokov's …

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 that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, …