Vladimir Nabokov

The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. With a new introduction by Claire Messud “The conjunction of a sense of humor with...

As intricate as a house of mirrors, Nabokov’s last novel is an ironic play on the Janus-like relationship between fiction and reality....

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

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

The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America, and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic....

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....

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....

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

One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character....

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

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....

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

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....

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....

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

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....

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

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....

La cumbre de la carrera de Nabokov: una de las más bellas, complejas e imaginativas visiones de la pasión amorosa que haya dado...

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