"Er dachte darüber nach, was für ein seltsames, seltsames Leben ihm zugefallen war, es schien, als hätte er den Schnellzug nie verlassen, wäre lediglich von einem Wagen zum anderen gewandert - und einer war von jungen Engländern besetzt,...

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the...

"Transparent Things" ist ein komplexer und poetisch geschriebener Roman von Vladimir Nabokov. Die Geschichte folgt Hugh Person, einem amerikanischen Lektor, der sich auf eine Reise in die Schweiz begibt, um sein Leben zu reflektieren und...

Der Zauberer von Nabokov, Vladimir

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the...

Die Jahre zwischen 1935 und 1951, der Zeitraum, den der zweite Band der "Erzählungen" dieser Werkausgabe umfasst - bergen für Nabokov und seine Familie unter anderem die entscheidenden Ereignisse der wiederholten Flucht vor den...

The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov's classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and...

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the...

The acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, and Chekhov. In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United...

Collected Stories von Nabokov, Vladimir

Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder. von Nabokov, Vladimir

Nabokov's third novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He...