Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1899-1977

Lolita by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( Book )
557 editions published between 1955 and 2010 in 38 languages and held by 4,663 libraries worldwide
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. Awe and exhilaration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

Speak, memory; an autobiography revisited by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( Book )
232 editions published between 1947 and 2011 in 17 languages and held by 3,228 libraries worldwide
A personal recollections ranging from St. Petersburg to St. Nazaire in Russia from 1903 to 1940. An interesting read with photos.

Pale fire by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( Book )
125 editions published between 1962 and 2011 in 14 languages and held by 2,864 libraries worldwide
Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures in a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade.

Ada : or, Ardor: a family chronicle by Владимир Владимирович Набоков ( Book )
55 editions published between 1969 and 2004 in 11 languages and held by 2,722 libraries worldwide
Een schrijver van een studie over de tijd stileert zijn leven, met name zijn incestueuze relatie met zijn zus, tot een eeuwig moment.

King, queen, knave : a novel by Владимир Владимирович Набоков ( Book )
105 editions published between 1928 and 2010 in 14 languages and held by 2,644 libraries worldwide
The story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife, Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the thin, awkward, myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle's condescension in his aunt's bed.

Lectures on literature by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( Book )
96 editions published between 1980 and 2010 in 10 languages and held by 2,480 libraries worldwide
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 ... lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers; Introduction by John Updike. -http://www.booksinprint

Glory : a novel by Владимир Владимирович Набоков ( Book )
75 editions published between 1932 and 2011 in 11 languages and held by 2,474 libraries worldwide
In the 20's, a Russian expatriate travels about Europe, attends Cambridge and makes friends.

Look at the harlequins by Владимир Владимирович Набоков ( Book )
37 editions published between 1974 and 2011 in 6 languages and held by 2,046 libraries worldwide
The life of the eminent Russian-American author, Vadim Vadimovich, bears an uncanny resemblance to that of Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, though the two are not to be confused. Focusing on the central figures of his life, his four wives, his books, and his muse, Dementia, readers are led to suspect that the fictions Vadim has created as an author have crossed the line between his life's work and his life itself, as the worlds of reality and literary grow increasingly indistinguishable.

Bend sinister by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( Book )
69 editions published between 1947 and 2011 in 10 languages and held by 1,986 libraries worldwide
While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, this novel is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state.

Pnin by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( Book )
150 editions published between 1957 and 2011 in 21 languages and held by 1,960 libraries worldwide
Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is a tireless lover who writes to his treacherous Liza: "A genius needs to keep so much in store, and thus cannot offer you the whole of himself as I do." Pnin is the focal point of subtle academic conspiracies he cannot begin to comprehend, yet he stages a faculty party to end all faculty parties forever.