Vladimir Nabokov, Author Vintage Books USA $15 (224p) ISBN 978-0-679-72726-2
In this novel, first published in 1959, a man plumbs the life of the writer who was his half brother. (Feb.)
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Vladimir Nabokov, Author Putnam Publishing Group $16.95 (127p) ISBN 978-0-399-13211-7
A novella written in Russian when Nabokov lived in Paris in 1939, The Enchanter resurfaced among his papers 20 years later. Nabokov described it then as ""the first little throb of Lolita '' and said its title anticipated the ``enchanted hunter''...
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Vladimir Nabokov, edited and trans. from the Russian by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd. Knopf, $35 (864p) ISBN 978-0-307-59336-8
It's hard to imagine Vladimir Nabokov spending enough time away from his wife, Vera, to write even a single letter to her, much less a massive collection of them. However, in this authoritative and charming new volume, we learn that early in their...
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Vladimir Nabokov, Author, Robert M. Pyle, Editor, Brian Boyd, Editor Beacon Press (MA) $45 (800p) ISBN 978-0-8070-8540-0
Admirers of the great novelist Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) know that collecting and classifying butterflies was for him not so much a hobby as an obsession, especially during the 1940s, when he worked for Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and
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Vladimir Nabokov, read by Stefan Rudnicki, Brilliance Audio, unabridged, five CDs, 5.5 hrs., $19.99 ISBN 978-1-4418-7271-5
Nabokov fans will be disappointed by narrator Stefan Rudnicki's stiff, staid performance in this audio version of the author's 13th novel. Told in a series of vignettes, the story follows Russian immigrant and professor Timofey Pavlovich Pnin as he...
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Vladimir Nabokov, read by Mel Foster, Brilliance Audio, unabridged, eight CDs, 8.5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4418-7292-0
Mel Foster turns in a workmanlike performance in this uninspired audio version of Vladimir Nabokov's third novel. Luzhin is a sullen, lonely child who takes refuge in chess and eventually becomes a grandmaster until chess begins to control and alter
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Vladimir Nabokov, read by Luke Daniels. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4418-7334-7
Luke Daniels’s reading of Nabokov’s first novel written in English is over emotive and replete with tearful women and awkwardly pronounced French words. But fear not: all is as it should be—Daniels is simply capturing the tone of this classic book...
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Vladimir Nabokov, Author, Dmitri Nabokov, Editor . Knopf $35 (278p) ISBN 978-0-307-27189-1
Before Nabokov's death in 1977, he instructed his wife to burn the unfinished first draft—handwritten on 138 index cards—of what would be his final novel. She did not, and now Nabokov's son, Dmitri, is releasing them to the...
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Vladimir Nabokov, Author, Dmitri Nabokov, Editor Vintage Books USA $19 (704p) ISBN 978-0-679-72997-6
Eleven of the 65 short stories by the exiled Russian master see their English-language debut here. (Jan.)
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Vladimir Nabokov, Author, Dmitri Nabokov, Editor Alfred A. Knopf $40 (0p) ISBN 978-0-394-58615-1
The exiled Russian master began writing short stories while he was still at Cambridge University and, in his subsequent years of residence in Berlin and Paris during the 1920s and '30s, continued to publish them frequently, writing in Russian,...
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Vladimir Nabokov, Author, Dmitri Nabokov, Editor, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Editor Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $29.95 (582p) ISBN 978-0-15-164190-1
Nabokoviana for fans of VN's every facet turns up throughout this comprehensive collection of letters gathered by the author's son and Bruccoli ( Some Sort of Grandeur). Extending from the author's 1940 arrival in America to his death in Switzerland
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Edited by Gennady Barabtarlo. Princeton Univ., $24.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-691-16794-7
Barabtarlo (A Shimmering Hoop), a Nabokov scholar, knits scraps and samples from his subject’s published and unpublished works into a philosophical meditation on dreams, time, and dream time that provides a fresh slant on this much-studied writer....
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Vladimir Nabokov, edited and trans. from the Russian by Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy. Knopf, $30 (576p) ISBN 978-1-101-87491-2
The more than 150 essays, interviews, and letters collected in this volume, some translated from the Russian for the first time, serve as an illuminating complement to Nabokov’s 1973 nonfiction roundup, Strong Opinions. Spanning the years 1921 to...
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