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Vladimir Nabokov: 'Lolita'
John LennardAn illuminating study of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel with special attention to its film versions.
Vladimir Nabokov: A Literary Life
David RamptonVladimir Nabokov insisted that a writer's biography should concentrate on what he called the story of a style.
Vladimir Nabokov: A Critical Study of the Novels
David RamptonVladimir Nabokov was always a controversial writer.
Strong Opinions
Vladimir NabokovPart of a major new series of the works of Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita and Pale Fire, in Penguin Classics.
Vladimir Nabokov
PreviewTranslated by Vladimir Nabokov (London), 1937; retranslated with many revisions and additions and serialized in this form in 'Playboy', 1965–6; revised version issued in volume form in Britain and the USA, 1966. 51. VIRGILIA PETERSON IN ...
Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977
Vladimir NabokovOver four hundred letters chronicle the author's career, recording his struggles in the publishing world, the battles over "Lolita," and his relationship with his wife.
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years
Brian Boyd"This is the first comprehensive account of Nabokov's life and oeuvre. The book's wide-ranging research and deep affinity for Nabokov's writings should establish it as the single indispensable source on its subject for many decades to come.
Vladimir Nabokov
Neil CornwellProfessor Neil Cornwell's study, published for the Nabokov centenary, examines five of Nabokov's major novels including Lolita (ranked 4 in the 1998 New York Modern Library list of the 100 best novels of the century published in English), ...
Invitation to a Beheading
Vladimir NabokovIt takes us into the fantastic prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come. Nabokov described the book as ‘a violin in a void.
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years
Brian BoydThe story of Nabokov's life continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940. He found that supporting himself and his family was not easy--until the astonishing success of Lolita catapulted him to world fame and financial security.
Vladimir Nabokov
Jane GraysonThe photographs and illustrations in this volume, many previously unpublished, range from early photographs of the Nabokovs' estates in Russia to hand-corrected manuscript pages, first edition book jackets, and examples of Nabokov's ...
Vera mevrouw Vladimir Nabokov: portret van een huwelijk
Stacy SchiffStacy Schiff is de auteur van Vera, mevrouw Vladimir Nabokov, dat bekroond werd met een Pulitzer Prize. Schiff schrijft regelmatig voor onder meer The New Yorker, The New York Times en The Washington Post. Ze woont en werkt in New York.
Vladimir Nabokov and the Poetics of Liberalism
Dana DragunoiuThrough a close examination of Nabokov's father's political, moral, and aesthetic values and, more generally, Russian liberalism as it existed in the first few decades of the 20th century, the author provides persuasive answers to many long ...
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More editionsTHE ZEMBLAN WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, OR NABOKOV'S PALE FIRE, CHANCE, AND THE COLD WAR BY STEVEN BELLETTO In his revised autobiography, Speak, Memory (1966), Vladimir Nabokov recounts two chance events ...
Shades of Laura: Vladimir Nabokov's Last Novel, The Original ...
PreviewLELAND DE LA DURANTAYE: Iseeevery reason totrust their judgment (and no reason not to). OLGA VORONINA: I do,too. Future Nabokovian discoveries are not the same thingas the future publicationsof previously unavailable Nabokov ...
Vladimir Nabokov: Poetry and the Lyric Voice
Paul D. MorrisIn this important new work, Paul D. Morris offers a comprehensive reading of Nabokov's Russian and English poetry, until now a neglected facet of his oeuvre.
Stalking Nabokov
Brian BoydBrian Boyd. ABBREVIATIONS Books by Vladimir Nabokov unless otherwise noted. For full bibliographical details, see the bibliography. Ada BS CE DBDV EO Gift IB KQK LAS LATH LDQ LL Lolita LRL NAPC NG NPFMAD N'sBs PF PP Ada ...
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years
Brian BoydVN to Henry Allan Moe, October 8, to KW, November 2, and to Dous- sia Ergaz, October 30, 1951, VNA. 23. NWL, 270; Bishop, "Nabokov at Cornell," 237; SL, 124. 24. VN to KW, November 2, 1951; pub. New Yorker, February 2, 1952; repr.
Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness
Brian BoydNabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness explores the relationship between the obvious dazzle of Nabokov's style and the unsuspected depths of his thought before focusing on his richest and most surprising novel.
Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Painting
Gerard de VriesStudie van de verwijzingen naar beeldende kunst in het werk van de Russisch-Amerikaanse schrijver (1899-1977).
The Gift
Vladimir NabokovThis gorgeous tapestry of literature and butterflies tells the story of Fyodor's pursuits as a writer. Its heroine is not Fyodor's elusive and beloved Zina, however, but Russian prose and poetry themselves.
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita: A Casebook
PreviewThe essays follow a progression focusing first on textual and thematic features and then proceeding to broader topics and cultural implications, including the novel's relations to other works of literature and art and the movies adapted ...
Lolita
Vladimir NabokovHumbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter.
Style is Matter: The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov
Leland De la DurantayeFocusing on Lolita but also addressing other major works (especially Speak, Memory and Pale Fire), the author asks whether the work of this writer whom many find cruel contains a moral message and, if so, why that message is so artfully ...
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Vladimir NabokovI am fast approaching the crucial point of Sebastian'ssentimental life and as I consider the work already done in the pale light of the task still before me I feel singularly ill at ease. Have I given as fair an idea of Sebastian's life up to now as I had ...
Véra: (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
Stacy SchiffVéra, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine—a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form.
The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography
PreviewLELAND DE LA DURANTAYE ... Lolita – Speak, Memory – offers a thousand similar small surprises in its own arresting images 165 The True Purpose of Autobiography, or the Fate of Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory Leland de la Durantaye.
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Vladimir Lʹvovich KvintRUSSIAN EXPERT ADDRESSES COMMUNITY GROUP AND FACULTY: PROFESSOR, CONSULTANT, AND AUTHOR VLADIMIR KVINT ON CAMPUS Vladimir Kvint is an internationally recognized specialist on the economy and natural ...
Algorithmic Learning in a Random World
Vladimir VovkVladimir Vovk, Alexander Gammerman, Glenn Shafer ... in the summer of 1996, involving AG, Vladimir N. Vapnik and W. Vapnik, who was then based at AT&T Laboratories in New Jersey, was visiting the Department of Computer Science at ...
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