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...

Collected Stories von Nabokov, Vladimir

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...

Professor Timofey Pnin ist ein Ritter der traurigen Gestalt. Der Exilrusse lehrt Literatur an einem amerikanischen Provinzcollege und versucht, sich in der neuen Heimat zurechtzufinden. Weder versteht er die Feinheiten der englischen...

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 As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates.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...

"Poèmes et problèmes: Edition trilingue français-russe-anglais" ist eine Sammlung von Werken des renommierten Autors Vladimir Nabokov. Das Buch enthält eine breite Auswahl an Poesie und Schachproblemen, die in drei Sprachen –...

Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet...

Dieser Band zeigt Nabokov, wie ihn kaum jemand kennt: als Dramatiker. Obwohl er sich niemals wirklich als Bühnenautor verstanden hat, schrieb er, im Schatten seiner Romane, Erzählungen und Gedichte, in seiner ersten, «russischen» Phase...