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Speak, memory: an autobiography revisited
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Vladimir Vladimirovich 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 ...
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Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years
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Brian Boyd
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.
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Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years
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Brian Boyd
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 ...
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Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita: A Casebook
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Ellen Pifer (Editor)
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 ...
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Nabokov's butterflies : unpublished and uncollected writings
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Vladimir Nabokov, Brian Boyd, Robert M. Pyle
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 ...
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Strong Opinions
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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.
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The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction
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Michael Wood
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 ...
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Nabokov: Novels and Memoirs: 1941-1951
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Vladimir Nabokov, Brian Boyd (Editor)
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 ...
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Alphabet in Color
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Vladimir Nabokov, Jean Holabird
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 ...
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Understanding Vladimir Nabokov
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Stephen J. Parker
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The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov
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Julian W Connolly (Editor)
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 ...
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Vladimir Nabokov: His Life and Works
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Stanley P Baldwin, M.A.
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Nabokov at Cornell
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Gavriel Shapiro (Editor)
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 ...
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Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics
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Nina L Khrushcheva
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 ...
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Vladimir Nabokov: Overlook Illustrated Lives
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Jane Grayson
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 ...
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Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery
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Brian Boyd
"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 ...
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Nabokov: 2his Life
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Nabokov, his life in art; a critical narrative.
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Social Semiotics as Praxi
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Paul J Thibault
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Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives
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Julian W Connolly (Editor)
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 ...
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The Two Lolitas
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Michael Maar
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 ...
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Escape into aesthetics: the art of Vladimir Nabokov.
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Page Stegner
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Vladimir Nabokov: A Pictorial Biography
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Ellendea C. Proffer (Editor)
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Nabokov: His Life in Part
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Style Is Matter: The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov
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Leland De La Durantaye
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