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1	Speak, memory: an autobiography revisited more books like this by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov add to wishlist 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 $2.72! new only from $9.59! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years more books like this by Brian Boyd add to wishlist Volume Two of a three-volume set that includes all the fiction and nonfiction Nabokov wrote while in America, along with notes and chronology by Brian Boyd. see all copies from $4.95! new only from $24.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years more books like this by Brian Boyd add to wishlist This first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of twentieth-century writers, finally allows us full access to the dramatic details of his life and the depths of his art. An intensely private man, Nabokov was uprooted first by the Russian Revolution and then by World War II. Transformed into a permanent wanderer, he ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $36.95! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita: A Casebook more books like this by Ellen Pifer (Editor) add to wishlist Midway through the 20th century, "Lolita" burst onto the literary scene - a Russian exile's extraordinary gift to American letters and the new world. The scandal provoked by the novel's subject - the sexual passion of a middle-aged European for a 12-year-old American girl - was quickly upstaged by the critical attention and acclaim it received ... see all copies from $17.50! new only from $26.37! \| SVS
5	Nabokov's butterflies : unpublished and uncollected writings more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov, Brian Boyd, Robert M. Pyle add to wishlist Nabokov's biographer, Brian Boyd, and lepidopterist Robert Michael Pyle have compiled Nabokov's writings on the subject of butterflies, a collection that includes poems, letters, journal entries, and bits of stories. Nabokov was as accomplished a lepidopterist as he was a writer; during the 1940s, at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, he ... see all copies from $11.57! new only from $65.00! \| first editions
6	Strong Opinions more books like this by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov add to wishlist 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 $5.95! new only from $9.59! \| first editions
7	The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction more books like this by Michael Wood add to wishlist Michael Wood's study of Nabokov's major works in English. He examines the novels "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight", "Lolita", "Ada", "Bend Sinister", "Pale Fire", and "Pnin", as well as some stories. Wood is attuned both to their use of language, wit and wordplay and to their depiction of human suffering. Wood also looks at Nabokov's translation ... see all copies from $2.06! new only from $19.95! \| first editions
8	Nabokov: Novels and Memoirs: 1941-1951 more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov, Brian Boyd (Editor) add to wishlist 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 $18.48! new only from $27.90! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Alphabet in Color more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov, Jean Holabird add to wishlist Jean Holabird's unique interpretation of the alphabets of literary great, Vladimir Nabokov, is a visual masterpiece. Nabokov has synesthesia, a condition that causes the neurological mixing of the senses so that people who have this condition may hear colors, see sounds, and taste sensations, responses common but not exclusive to autism and the ... see all copies from $7.90! new only from $22.50! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Understanding Vladimir Nabokov more books like this by Stephen J. Parker add to wishlist see all copies from $17.50! new only from $23.18! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov more books like this by Julian W Connolly (Editor) add to wishlist Vladimir Nabokov held the unique distinction of being one of the most important writers of the twentieth century in two separate languages, Russian and English. Known for his verbal mastery and bold plots, Nabokov fashioned a literary legacy that continues to grow in significance. This volume offers a concise and informative introduction into ... see all copies from $5.83! new only from $5.95!
12 view cover	Vladimir Nabokov: His Life and Works more books like this by Stanley P Baldwin, M.A. add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
13 view cover	Nabokov at Cornell more books like this by Gavriel Shapiro (Editor) add to wishlist Vladimir Nabokov taught at Cornell University from 1948 to 1959. It was at Cornell that Nabokov composed Lolita and Pnin and conceived Pale Fire. During his Cornell tenure Nabokov also continued his research on lepidoptera, wrote the English and Russian versions of his autobiography, Conclusive Evidence and Drugie Berega, and prepared annotated ... see all copies from $2.93! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
14 view cover	Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics more books like this by Nina L Khrushcheva add to wishlist Vladimir Nabokov's "Western choice" (his exile to the West after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution) allowed him to take a crucial literary journey, leaving the closed nineteenth-century Russian culture behind and arriving in the extreme openness of twentieth-century America. In "Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics", Nina Khrushcheva ... see all copies from $9.46! new only from $9.46! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Vladimir Nabokov: Overlook Illustrated Lives more books like this by Jane Grayson add to wishlist History seemed to pursue Vladimir Nabokov. In the Russian Revolution and the Second World War he lost his homeland, social position and family, and was even forced to abandon working in his native language. Despite the shadow of exile, Nabokov's work exudes a tremendous vivacity and joy. Even at its darkest it has an inventiveness and a richness ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.95! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery more books like this by Brian Boyd add to wishlist "Pale Fire" is regarded by many as Vladimir Nabokov's masterpiece. The novel has been hailed as one of the most striking early examples of postmodernism and has become a famous test case for theories about reading because of the apparent impossibility of deciding between several radically different interpretations. Does the book have two narrators ... see all copies from $11.16! new only from $26.55! \| first editions \| SVS
17	Nabokov: 2his Life more books like this by Andrew Field add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
18	Nabokov, his life in art; a critical narrative. more books like this by Andrew Field add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Social Semiotics as Praxi more books like this by Paul J Thibault add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00! new only from $36.64!
20 view cover	Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives more books like this by Julian W Connolly (Editor) add to wishlist To mark the centenary of Vladimir Nabokov's birth, this volume brings together the work of eleven of the world's foremost Nabokov scholars offering new perpectives on the writer and his fiction. Their essays cover a broad range of topics and approaches, from close readings of major texts, including Speak, Memory and Pale Fire, to penetrating ... see all copies from $83.26! new only from $83.26!
21 view cover	The Two Lolitas more books like this by Michael Maar add to wishlist Does it ring a bell? The first-person narrator, a cultivated man of middle age, looks back on the story of an amour fou. It all starts when, travelling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger. The moment he sees the daughter of the house, he is lost. She is a pre-teen, whose charms instantly enslave him. Heedless of her age, he becomes intimate with ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $16.44! \| first editions \| SVS
22	Escape into aesthetics: the art of Vladimir Nabokov. more books like this by Page Stegner add to wishlist see all copies from $2.50! first editions
23	Vladimir Nabokov: A Pictorial Biography more books like this by Ellendea C. Proffer (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $10.99! new only from $28.95! \| first editions
24	Nabokov: His Life in Part more books like this by Andrew Field add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
25 view cover	Style Is Matter: The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov more books like this by Leland De La Durantaye add to wishlist see all copies from $24.96! new only from $24.96!

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