BOOKS by Vladimir Nabokov

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1	Lolita more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov In the decades of its first publication, LOLITA has emerged as a classic of contemporary literature. Poet and pervert, Humbert becomes obsessedby twelve year old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love. This seduction is one of the many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £6.39! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Pale fire more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov A novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death. The poem appears in full and the narrative develops through the lengthy, and increasingly eccentric, notes by his posthumous editor. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £7.19! \| first editions
3	Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited more books like this by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Nabokov''s perspective on his life is like no other conventional autobiography. The author tells his life story in the same mercurial, ironic and tender style as that which he used in his greatest novels.' see all copies from £5.10! new only from £7.99! \| first editions
4	Invitation to a beheading more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov Written in Berlin in 1934, "Invitation to a Beheading" contains all the surprise, excitement and magical intensity of a work created in two brief weeks of sustained inspiration. It 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 ... see all copies from £3.58! new only from £9.05! \| first editions
5	Pnin more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov In this short but pungent and entirely characteristic novel, Nabokov tells the tragi-comic story of Professor Timofey Pnin - savant, emigre and linguist, happy in scholarship but disappointed in life and in love. With the lightest of touches the author sketches in a whole history from a few inconsequential episodes. A faculty party, a shipboard ... see all copies from £2.51! new only from £7.19! \| first editions
6	The stories of Vladimir Nabokov. more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov From one of the greatest prose stylists of our time,his complete short stories, including 13 hitherto unpublished,brought toghether for the first time. see all copies from £9.60! new only from £12.29! \| first editions
7	Despair more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with a man he believes to be his double reveals a frightening 'split' in Hermann's nature. With shattering immediacy, Nabokov takes us into a deranged world, one full of an impudent, ... see all copies from £3.59! new only from £8.80! \| first editions
8	Laughter in the Dark more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov This is the way Vladimir Nabokow's Laughter In The Dark begins: 'Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, aman called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster.' And he starts from here, with his characteristic ... see all copies from £3.22! new only from £7.19! \| first editions
9	ADA, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov One of Nabokov's masterpieces; a complex love story troubled by incest. But there's more; it is also a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel and erotic catalogue. see all copies from £5.02! new only from £11.86! \| first editions
10	Bend Sinister more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov A satirical fantasy on the rise of a tyrant state. Adam Krug stands alone in opposition to the new regime. His antagonist is the leader of the new party, Paduk. Grieving over his wife's recent death, Krug is at first dismissive of Paduk's activities. Then his son David is seized. see all copies from £2.08! new only from £8.59! \| first editions
11 view cover	The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov Alfred Appel Jr. appends to the text of LOLITA an exhaustive network of notes, definitions, clarifications, translations, and variations, as well as a general introduction to the novel. see all copies from £11.44! new only from £12.71!
12 view cover	Lectures on Literature more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov 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 Ulysses. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers; Introduction by John Updike; illustrations. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £10.52! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Glory more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov chronicles the aimless and unremarkable life of Martin Edelweiss: his Swiss-Russian background, his parents' divorce, the death of his father, his mother's remarriage, his years at Oxford, and his love affair with the fickle Sonia. Uninterested in a career after university, Martin wanders Europe, working at odd jobs. Then, suddenly, he ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £5.54! \| first editions
14 view cover	Mary more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov's first novel (1925) is a comic fantasy about a Russian émigré army officer who is living in a seedy Berlin boarding house. Nostalgically, he remembers his first, idyllic love affair with the lovely Mary ("Mashenka"). Inevitably, he contrasts his old life before the Revolution with his present one, which includes the unpleasant man in the ... see all copies from £2.15! new only from £2.15! \| first editions
15 view cover	Lectures on Russian literature more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov, Fredson Bowers These lectures by Nabokov at Cornell deal mainly with Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Gorki. see all copies from £6.76! new only from £10.81! \| first editions
16 view cover	Nikolai Gogol more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov shows that Gogol's comedy was not Dickensian, but biting and salty, textured throughout by a use of the irrational not duplicated by any other writer; that in the play "The Government Inspector" and "Dead Souls," a novel, his depiction of the frauds of bureaucracy and the vagaries of Russian serf-owners were not so much intended to hasten ... see all copies from £7.97! new only from £9.34! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Gift more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov THE GIFT is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. This gorgeous tapesty 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 ... see all copies from £7.19! new only from £9.59! \| first editions
18 view cover	Transparent Things more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov In this very short novel, Hugh Person is an American who makes four trips to Switzerland representing the publisher he works for. During the first, his father dies, and in subsequent visits things go from bad to worse. He becomes involved in a complicated love affair, a farcical murder by a sleepwalker, and a disastrous fire. Eventually, we ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £8.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Speak Memory more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Nabokov's dazzling autobiography, published in 1966, is a dense and enchanting flood of recollections--of his comfortable bourgeois childhood and adolescence, his obsession with lepidoptery, his rich and liberal-minded father, his beautiful and compassionate mother, an army of relations and hangers-on, and St. Petersburg in pre ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £23.53! \| first editions
20 view cover	The eye more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov In this very short novel--Nabokov's fourth--a Russian émigré named Smurov kills himself after a humiliating affair with a married woman. His troubles, however, continue in the afterlife, as he tries to find out who he is and why this has happened to him. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £9.12! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Real life of Sebastian Knight more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman ('his slapdash and very misleading book'), the narrator, V, sets out to record Sebastian Knight's life as he understands it. But buried amid the extensive quoting, digressions, seeming explanations and meaningful digs at Mr ... see all copies from £2.92! new only from £6.41! \| first editions
22 view cover	Nabokov: Novels 1955-1962 more books like this by Brian Boyd (Editor), Vladimir Nabokov The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ... see all copies from £14.56! new only from £16.29! \| first editions
23 view cover	Strong Opinions more books like this by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov This collection of Nabokov's opinions, as expressed in interviews, articles, and reviews, includes his thoughts on literature, movies, American culture, art, and the Russian Revolution. see all copies from £8.93! new only from £10.81! \| first editions
24 view cover	Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977 more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov (Illustrator), Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (Editor) Over 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. see all copies from £9.19! new only from £21.45! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry Selected and Translated by Vladimir Nabokov more books like this by Brian Boyd (Editor), Stanislav Shvabrin (Editor), Vladimir Nabokov (Translator) Vladimir Nabokov was hailed by Salman Rushdie as the most important writer ever to cross the boundary between one language and another. A Russian emigre who began writing in English after his forties, Nabokov was a trilingual author, equally competent in Russian, English, and French. A gifted and tireless translator, he bridged the gap between ... see all copies from £17.25! new only from £18.02! \| first editions

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