Vladimir Nabokov

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  • Bibliography:
    42 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1957
  • Latest Book:
    August 2016
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Book List in Order: 42 titles

  • Pnin

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    One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character.  Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, Pnin brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination a...

  • Lolita

    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 Dolores Haze. ...

  • Pale Fire

    An adventure, a novel, a romance, a satire ...this totally unusual work by the world-famous author of Lolita is a true original: a one-of-a-kind book. Critics have praised it, readers have devoured it, writers have exalted and admired it. But no one ...

  • Nabokov's Congeries

  • Nabokov

  • Nabokov's Dozen

    A baker's dozen of fiction by a modern master that spans the twentieth century from the last days of the Czars, to the Bolshevik Revolution, Nazi Germany, and contemporary middle-class America. Looking back nostalgically to the past and ahead to a fu...

  • Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories

  • Details of a Sunset

  • Sogliadatai



  • Lectures on Literature

    For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited a...

  • Laughter in the Dark

    Amidst a Weimar-era milieu of silent film stars, artists, and aspirants, Nabokov creates a merciless masterpiece as Albinus, an aging critic, falls prey to his own desires, to his teenage mistress, and to Axel Rex, the scheming rival for her affectio...

  • Vozvrashchenie Chorba

  • Nabokov's Quartet

  • The Enchanter

    The precursor to Nabokov's classic novel, Lolita. •  A middle-aged man weds an unattractive widow in order to indulge his obsession with her daughter.  • "A gem to be appreciated by any admirer of the most graceful and provocative ...

  • Despair

    The wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder. • “A beautiful mystery plot, not to be revealed.” " Newsweek “Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that...

  • Russian Beauty and Other Stories

    In this collection of short stories Vladimir Nabokov reflects upon the Russian "emigre" world of the 20s and 30s. Disconsolate, uprooted characters make up a tapestry which is shot through with nostalgia and irony. Vladimir Nabokov also wrote "Lolita...

  • King, Queen, Knave

    A love triangle, where two of the members attempt to murder the third. • King, Queen, Knave, like all Nabokov’s writing, bears the unmistakable stamp of his genius " brilliant, erotic, deliciously macabre, and wholly unique.“Fascinating...

  • Invitation to a Beheading

    Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude," an imaginary crime that de...

  • Speak, Memory

    Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despai...



  • Transparent Things

    The darkly comic Transparent Things, one of Nabokov's final books, traces the bleak life of Hugh Person through murder, madness, prison and trips to Switzerland. One of these was the last journey his father ever took; on another, having been sen...

  • Mary

    A gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia. • Written in 1925, Mary is Nabokov’s first novel. Like his other early masterpieces, it bears witness to Nabokov’s sensual mastery of language. “In MARY we see him evoking the fir...

  • Ada, or Ardor

    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.  It is also at once a fairy ta...

  • Strong Opinions

    Strong Opinions offers Nabokov's trenchant, witty, and always engaging views on everything from the Russian Revolution to the correct pronunciation of Lolita. • "First published in 1973, this collection of interviews and essays offers an intri...

  • Bend Sinister

    The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic.  While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and f...

  • Look at the Harlequins!

    A dying man cautiously unravels the mysteries of memory and creation. Vadim is a Russian émigré who, like Nabokov, is a novelist, poet and critic. There are threads linking the fictional hero with his creator as he reconstructs the images of his pa...

  • The Defense

    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 takes up ches...

  • The Eye

    A farcical detective story and a profoundly refractive tale about a Russian émigré living in prewar Berlin who commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater indiginities in the afterlife. • ...

  • The Gift

    Considered by many to be the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. •  An interweaving of the effects of life and memory, tradition and heritage, upon art, the book tells of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished poet seeki...

  • Glory

    Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twenty-two-year-old Russian émigré of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him.  "The themes we associate with Nabokov -- the romance of emigres, sexual frust...



  • The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

    The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story -- subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax -- about the mysterious life of a famous writer. Many people knew things about Sebastian Knight as a distinguishe...

  • The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

    From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which...

  • Vladimir Nabokov: Novels 1955-1962

    This Library of America volume is the second of three volumes presenting the most authoritative versions of the English works of the brilliant Russian émigré, Vladimir Nabokov.

    Lolita (1955), Nabokov’s single most famous work, is one of t...

  • Vladimir Nabokov: Novels 1969-1974

    This Library of America volume is the third of three devoted to Vladimir Nabokov, and contains the evanescent works of his later years.

    Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969), the longest of Nabokov’s novels, is a witty and parodic accoun...

  • Vladimir Nabokov: Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951

    This Library of America volume is the first of three volumes presenting the most authoritative versions of the English works of the brilliant Russian émigré, Vladimir Nabokov.

    The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the first novel Vladimir Nabok...

  • Nabokov's Butterflies

    Newly translated works by Nabokov on the twin passions of his life, literature and lepidoptera. A rich array of never-before-seen Nabokovia: novels, stories, poems, autobiography, interviews, diaries, and more, plus scientific and fanciful drawings b...

  • The Luzhin Defense

    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 takes...

  • Collected Stories

    A man at his desk is interrupted by the appearance of a woodland elf in his room; the piano maestro Bachmann ends his career; a barber shaves the face of a man who once tortured him; and, a shy dreamer makes a deal with the Devil. In these sixty-five...

  • Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita

    In this Readers' Guide, Christine Clegg examines the critical history of Lolita through a broad range of interpretations. Although early criticism of the text polarized around 'that' question - is it literature or pornography? - the influence of Amer...

  • Vintage Nabokov

    Novelist, poet, critic, translator, and, above all, a peerless imaginer, Vladimir Nabokov was arguably the most dazzling prose stylist of the twentieth century. In novels like Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, he turned language into an instr...



  • The Song of Igor's Campaign

    The author of Lolita translates the celebrated, medieval epic Russian poem about a doomed campaign led by Prince Igor Sviatoslavich the Brave.A chivalric expedition is undertaken in the late twelfth century by a minor prince in the land of Rus...

  • The Original of Laura

    "Nabokov's last metafictive parable. . . . One of the most interesting short stories Nabokov never wrote." -- San Francisco ChronicleWhen Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 hand-written index cards that...

  • The Defence

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Vladimir Nabokov has published 42 books.

Vladimir Nabokov does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Defence, was published in August 2016.

The first book by Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin, was published in January 1957.

No. Vladimir Nabokov does not write books in series.
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