Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime: his own murder....

In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude." an imaginary crime that defies definition....

From Vladimir Nabokov, the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, comes a magnificent collection of stories....

Ada, or Ardor tells a love story troubled by incest, but it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue....

From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time....

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the first novel Nabokov wrote in English, is a tantalizing literary mystery....

A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed - according to Nabokov's fiction - by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life....

The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native language and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career....

"Lolita, Licht meines Lebens, Feuer meiner Lenden. Meine Sünde, meine Seele. Lo-li-ta: die Zungenspitze macht drei Sprünge den Gaumen...

Pnin está considerada como "la más deliciosa de las novelas de Nabokov" (G. M. Hyde), "la más inmediatamente atractiva" (Laurie Clancy) y, posiblemente,...

Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star....

Strazio e incanto, insieme a scintillante ironia, abbondano in Lolita, il romanzo più celebre di Nabokov che racconta la storia dell'ossessiva...

La primera edicion de "Lolita" apareció en París en 1955, publicada por Olympia Press, una editorial con acreditada gama de pornográfica...

Nabokov’s fourth novel, The Eye, is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances....

Nabokov’s third novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness....

" Transparent Things revolves around four visits of the hero - sullen, gawky Hugh Person - to Switzerland....

In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of serio-comic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair....

This novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men’s clothing emporium....

The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov’s classic novel....

Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a 22-year-old Russian émigré of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him....