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List Of Works By Vladimir Nabokov
This is a list of works by writer Vladimir Nabokov. Fiction Novels and novellas Novels and novellas written in Russian * (1926) ''Mashen'ka'' (Машенька); English translation: '' Mary'' (1970) * (1928) ''Korol', dama, valet'' (Король, дама, валет); English translation: ''King, Queen, Knave'' (1968) * (1930) ''Zashchita Luzhina'' (Защита Лужина); English translation: ''The Luzhin Defense'' or '' The Defense'' (1964) (also adapted to film, ''The Luzhin Defence'', in 2000) * (1930) ''Sogliadatay'' (Соглядатай (The Voyeur)), novella; first publication as a book 1938; English translation: '' The Eye'' (1965) * (1932) ''Podvig'' (Подвиг (Heroic Deed)); English translation: '' Glory'' (1971) * (1933) ''Kamera Obskura'' (Камера Обскура); English translations: ''Camera Obscura'' (1936), '' Laughter in the Dark'' (1938) * (1934) ''Otchayanie'' (Отчаяние); English translation: '' Despair'' (1937, 1965) * (1936) ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (russian: link=no, Владимир Владимирович Набоков ; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian (1926–1938) while living in Berlin, where he met his wife. He achieved international acclaim and prominence after moving to the United States, where he began writing in English. Nabokov became an American citizen in 1945 and lived mostly on the East Coast before returning to Europe in 1961, where he settled in Montreux, Switzerland. From 1948 to 1959, Nabokov was a professor of Russian literature at Cornell University. Nabokov's 1955 novel '' Lolita'' ranked fourth on Modern Library's list of the 100 best 20th-century novels in 2007 and is considered one of the greatest 20th-century works of literature. Nabokov's ''Pale Fire'', published in 1962, was ranked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pale Fire
''Pale Fire'' is a 1962 novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is presented as a 999-line poem titled "Pale Fire", written by the fictional poet John Shade, with a foreword, lengthy commentary and index written by Shade's neighbor and academic colleague, Charles Kinbote. Together these elements form a narrative in which both fictional authors are central characters. Nabokov wrote ''Pale Fire'' in 1960–61, after the success of ''Lolita'' had made him financially independent, allowing him to retire from teaching and return to Europe. It was commenced in Nice and completed in Montreux, Switzerland. ''Pale Fire'' has spawned a wide variety of interpretations and a large body of written criticism, which Finnish literary scholar estimated in 1995 as more than 80 studies. The Nabokov authority Brian Boyd has called it "Nabokov's most perfect novel", and the critic Harold Bloom called it "the surest demonstration of his own genius ... that remarkable tour de force". It was ranke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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". In the current printing of this work, sixteen stories not previously published in English are translated by the author's son, Dmitri Nabokov. The collection was first published in America by Alfred A. Knopf in 1995. As initially published, the collection included 65 stories. Nabokov's first collection of short stories, 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 N ..., contained thirteen total stories, which made for the structure of all of his subsequent collections, four in his lifetime. In the introduction to the collection, Dmitri Nabokov explains th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 émigré press at that time later to be translated into English by him and his son, Dmitri Nabokov. The collection was published with a foreword by the author in 1976. Stories included * "Details of a Sunset" * "A Bad Day" * "Orache (story), Orache" * "The Return of Chorb" * "The Passenger (story), The Passenger" * "A Letter that Never Reached Russia" * "A Guide to Berlin (short story), A Guide to Berlin" * "The Doorbell" * "The Thunderstorm" * "The Reunion (story), The Reunion" * "A Slice of Life (story), A Slice of Life" * "Christmas (story), Christmas" * "A Busy Man" {{DEFAULTSORT:Details of a Sunset and Other Stories Short story collections by Vladimir Nabokov 1976 short story collections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 English by him and his son, Dmitri Nabokov. These stories appeared first individually in the Russian émigré press. The last story was written in English in Ithaca, New York in 1951. The collection was published in 1974. Stories included * " Tyrants Destroyed" * "A Nursery Tale" * "Music" * " Lik" * " Recruiting" * " Terror" * "The Admiralty Spire" * "A Matter of Chance" * " In Memory of L. I. Shigaev" * "Bachmann" * "Perfection" * "Vasiliy Shishkov" * "The Vane Sisters "The Vane Sisters" is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov, written in March 1951. It is famous for providing one of the most extreme examples of an unreliable narrator. It was first published in the Winter 1958 issue of ''The Hudson Review'' and then ..." {{DE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Russian Beauty And Other Stories
''A Russian Beauty and Other Stories'' is a collection of thirteen short stories by Russian author Vladimir Nabokov. The short stories in this collection were originally written in Russian between 1927 and 1940 under the pseudonym Vladimir Sirin. Before being collated into short story collections, some were published by various European Russian émigré newspapers and magazines. This collection was published in English in 1973 by McGraw-Hill in New York, it was translated by Nabokov himself and his son Dmitri Nabokov as well as Simon Karlinsky who collaborated with the author to translate the first short story " A Russian Beauty". Stories included * " A Russian Beauty" written in 1934 * " The Leonardo" written in 1933 * " Torpid Smoke" written in 1935 * " Breaking the News" written in 1935 * " Lips to Lips" written in 1932 * " A Visit to the Museum" written in 1931 * "An Affair of Honor" written in 1927 * "Terra Incognita ''Terra incognita'' or ''terra ignota'' (Latin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 which works Nabokov considered to be his best, especially among his short stories. Contents * Editor's Introduction by Page Stegner * A Bibliographical Note * Vladimir Nabokov: A Chronology The Artist Himself * From ''Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited'' Eleven Stories * "Terra Incognita" * " Cloud, Castle, Lake" (Облако, озеро, башня) * " The Visit to the Museum" (Посещение музея) * " Spring in Fialta" (Весна в Фиальте) * " That in Aleppo Once..." * " The Assistant Producer" * "Signs and Symbols" * "First Love" * "Lance" * " The Vane Sisters" * " Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster" Essays and Criticism * On a Book Entitled '' Lolita'' * Introduction to ''Bend Sinister'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nabokov's Quartet
''Nabokov's Quartet'' is a collection of four of Vladimir Nabokov's short stories. The collection was first published by Phaedra, New York in 1966. It contains the following short stories: * " An Affair of Honor" * "Lik" * "The Vane Sisters" * " The Visit to the Museum" The latter two were reprinted in 1968 in ''Nabokov's Congeries'', and "Lik" and "The Vane Sisters" are included in '' Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories'' (1975). All four stories were published again posthumously within ''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". In the current printing of this ...''. {{Vladimir Nabokov Short story collections by Vladimir Nabokov 1966 short story collections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Collection Of Thirteen Stories
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spring In Fialta And Other Stories
''Spring in Fialta and other stories'' (Весна в Фиальте и другие рассказы; "Vesna v Fialʹte i drugie rasskazy") is a collection of short stories by the Russian author Vladimir Nabokov. The collection contains 14 short stories written between 1931 and 1940. It was originally planned to be published in 1939 in Paris; however, due to the approach of World War II, it became an abandoned project. The collection was first published in Russian in 1956 by the Chekhov Publishing House in New York. Contents * Весна в Фиальте (Vesna v Fial'te); English translation: Spring in Fialta (1936) * Круг (Krug); English translation: The Circle (1934) * Королек (Korolek); English translation: The Leonardo (1939) * Тяжолый дым (Tyazhyolyy dym); English translation: Torpid Smoke (1935) * Памяти Л.И. Шигаева (Pamyati L.I. Shigaeva); English translation: In the Memory of L.I. Shigaeva (1934) * Посещение музея (Pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
