Authors: Vladimir Nabokov

Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Though we know Vladimir Nabokov as a brilliant novelist, his first love was poetry. This landmark collection brings together the best of his verse, including many pieces that have never before appeared in English. These poems span the...
Category: Regional and Cultural
The Enchanter

The Enchanter

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Nabokov described this novella, written in Paris in 1939 but only published twenty years later, as ‘the first little throb of Lolita'. The plot is similar: a middle-aged man wedding an unattractive widow in order to indulge his...
Category: Classics
The Original of Laura

The Original of Laura

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When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, “The Original of Laura.” But Nabokov's wife, Vera,...
Category: Classics
The Luzhin Defense

The Luzhin Defense

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A chilling story of obsession and madness. Luzhin, a distracted, withdrawn boy, takes up chess as a refuge from everyday life. As he rises to the heights of grandmaster, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality as he...
Category: Classics
Speak, Memory

Speak, Memory

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From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of...
Category: Biographies and Memoirs
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

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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...
Category: Classics
Bend Sinister

Bend Sinister

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The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine ‘Average Man’ party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John...
Category: Classics
Lectures on Literature

Lectures on Literature

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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...
Category: Essays
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