Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1899-1977

Lolita by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( Book )
867 editions published between 1955 and 2014 in 32 languages and held by 10,002 WorldCat member 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

Lectures on literature by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( Book )
113 editions published between 1980 and 2010 in 6 languages and held by 3,799 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Timeless discussions of Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Joyce, Proust, and others

Ada : or, Ardor: a family chronicle by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( Book )
92 editions published between 1969 and 2013 in English and held by 3,532 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Set in a "dreambright" America, at the turn of the century, Nabokov's last novel depicts an incestuous love affair, while presenting a complex puzzle of literary world play and metaphysical parody

Pale fire : a novel by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( Book )
135 editions published between 1962 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 3,209 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures in a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade

King, queen, knave : a novel by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( Book )
64 editions published between 1968 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 2,786 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"This novel is 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 middleclass 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."--Cover p. [4]

Pnin by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( Book )
187 editions published between 1957 and 2013 in 17 languages and held by 2,646 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Life and character of a middle-aged emigre Russian professor in a small American college

Glory : a novel by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( Book )
54 editions published between 1971 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 2,554 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In the 20's, a Russian expatriate travels about Europe, attends Cambridge and makes friends

Bend sinister by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( Book )
93 editions published between 1947 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 2,438 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Professor Adam Krug, the foremost philosopher of his country, is, along with his son, kidnapped by the government in hopes of making him support Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man

American poetry : the twentieth century by The Library of America ( Book )
1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 2,384 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens

The gift : a novel by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( Book )
77 editions published between 1952 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 2,051 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished poet, seeks fame in the phantasmic world of Berlin in the 1920's