Vladimir Nabokov

Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the …

Pnin /pnjin/ is Vladimir Nabokov's 13th novel and his fourth written in English; it was published in 1957. The success of Pnin in the United States would launch Nabokov's career into literary prominence. The book's eponymous protagonist, Timofey Pavlovich Pnin, is a Russian-born professor living in the United States. …

Pale Fire is a postmodern novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is presented as a 999-line poem titled "Pale Fire", written by the fictional John Shade, with a foreword and lengthy commentary by a neighbor and academic colleague of the poet, Charles Kinbote. Together these elements form a narrative in which both …

"Lolita" on Vladimir Nabokovi ingliskeelne romaan. See avaldati Pariisis 1955. ja New Yorgis 1958. aastal. Prantsuse ajaleht Le Monde valis selle sajandi 100 parima raamatu hulka. Romaan on oma vormilt minategelase, keskealise "Humbert Humberti" vanglas kirjutatud surmaeelne pihtimus. Raamatu sisuks on Humbert …