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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Author	: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher	: Vintage
Release Date	: 2011-02-16
ISBN 10	: 9780307788092
Pages	: 704 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (88 users)

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Download or read book The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov written by Vladimir Nabokov and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 have been translated into English for the first time--display all the shades of Nabokov's imagination. They range from sprightly fables to bittersweet tales of loss, from claustrophobic exercises in horror to a connoisseur's samplings of the table of human folly. Read as a whole, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov offers and intoxicating draft of the master's genius, his devious wit, and his ability to turn language into an instrument of ecstasy.

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Author	: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher	: Vintage
Release Date	: 1995
ISBN 10	: 9780679729976
Pages	: 659 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (299 users)

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Download or read book The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov written by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 65 stories about human relations, human nature, and political satire includes 13 first-time English translations

Collected Stories

Author	: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher	: Penguin UK
Release Date	: 2001
ISBN 10	: 9780141183459
Pages	: 1120 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (834 users)

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Download or read book Collected Stories written by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in inimitable prose, these 65 stories span Nabokov's extraordinary life and career. Arranged chronologically to illuminate his development as a writer, the collection displays Nabokov's range of technical and formal inventiveness.

Torpid Smoke

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Publisher	: BRILL
Release Date	: 2021-10-18
ISBN 10	: 9789004483897
Pages	: 250 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (838 users)

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Download or read book Torpid Smoke written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the contents: Memory and dream in Nabokov's short fiction (B. Wyllie). - Nabokov's approach to the supernatural in the early stories (J.W. Connoly). - Nabokov's Christmas stories (R.H.W. Dillard). - Art and marriage in Vladimir Nabokov's Music and in Lev Tolstoy's The Kreutzer sonata (N.W. Balestrini). - How they brought the bad news to Mints: Breaking the news (S.G. Kellman). - Alone in the void: Mademoiselle O (J.E. Rivers). - Nabokov's Vasily Shishkov: an author-text interpretation (M.D. Shrayer). - Ville scripts: games of double-crossing in Vladimir Nabokov's The assistant producer (C. Moraru).

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | From All-time Russian Bestseller Author of Books Like: Lolita / Pnin / Speak, Memory / Laughter in the Dark / Invitation to a Beheading

Author	: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher	: DD BOOKS
Release Date	: 2022-09-28
ISBN 10	: 9789395279550
Pages	: 364 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (795 users)

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Download or read book Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | From All-time Russian Bestseller Author of Books Like: Lolita / Pnin / Speak, Memory / Laughter in the Dark / Invitation to a Beheading written by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov and published by DD BOOKS. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Author of Books Like: 1.Lolita 2.Pnin 3.Speak, Memory 4.Laughter in the Dark 5.Invitation to a Beheading 6.The Luzhin Defense 7.Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle 8.Despair 9.The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov 10. Pale Fire About the Book: Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Dolores Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust. About the Author: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian-American novelist. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made significant contributions to lepidoptery, and had a big interest in chess problems. Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is frequently cited as his most important novel, and is at any rate his most widely known one, exhibiting the love of intricate wordplay and descriptive detail that characterized all his works. Lolita was ranked fourth in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels; Pale Fire (1962) was ranked 53rd on the same list, and his memoir, Speak, Memory (1951), was listed eighth on the publisher's list of the 20th century's greatest nonfiction. He was also a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction seven times. Valueble Customers Review: Written in a confessional style, Nabokov’s masterwork tells the story of a middle-aged intellectual, Humbert Humbert, and his hebephiliac obsession with a twelve-year-old girl named Delores Haze -- whom he calls Lolita. Early in the novel, Humbert is renting a room from Charlotte Haze (Lolita’s mother,) and Charlotte starts sending him heavy hints that she is interested in a more intimate relationship. While the Humbert that we get to know as readers is a creepy, obsessive stalker, in person the man comes across as articulate and suave – in other words, a fine marriage prospect for a single mom in the market for a husband. Eventually, Humbert does decide to marry Charlotte -- not because he loves her, but because he is obsessed with Delores / Lolita and wants to stay close to the girl no matter what it takes. One day after the couple has settled into marriage, Humbert comes in to find that Charlotte is freaked out; she has read his journal and now knows what the reader is already aware of: that Humbert isn’t right in the head, that he secretly detests Charlotte, and that he desperately wants to possess Lolita. This would be the end of the line for Humbert’s ruse, but Charlotte, in a mad flurry of preparation to get away from Humbert, dashes in front of a speeding vehicle as she is crossing the road to post letters that would have outed Humbert as a hebephiliac cretin. But Charlotte is not around to tell the story, and Humbert is handed the unopened letters (no one has any reason to think he’s anything but a loving and devoted husband, so good is his mask.) At the time of Charlotte’s death, Lolita is away at camp. While Humbert’s obsession may have been news to Charlotte, it seemed the mother was always keen to keep her daughter at bay. In part the mother – daughter never got along, but, on some level, Charlotte seemed uncomfortable having Lolita around Humbert, whether Charlotte was just jealous of the girl’s youth or whether she had some inkling of what was really going on can’t be known. [We only have Humbert’s perspective, and he is an admittedly unreliable narrator – though he does offer his own speculations about other character’s mindset, and – as will be discussed – his unreliability is in specific domains. In some ways, he’s unexpectedly forthright.] At any rate, Humbert takes Lolita on a road trip, at first telling her only that her mother was not well, and not until an emotional outburst much later, letting the girl know her mother is dead. [Lolita seems to suspect that Humbert killed Charlotte, but seems unperturbed by it – perhaps because she never got along with her mother, or perhaps, because she’s a bit of a psychopath, herself.] After some time on the road, a time during which Humbert both has his way with Lolita and discovers that she isn’t the innocent little girl he’d imagined, Humbert and Lolita settle into a town where Lolita can go to a girl’s school and where they aren’t known. This settling in creates a number of challenges for the possessive Humbert because he would ideally like Lolita to spend no time whatsoever with other males and as little time as possible with other females, or at least with females who might learn about their unusual living arrangement. For instance, Humbert has to be convinced to let Lolita participate in a school play via a meeting with faculty and administration from the school. Intriguingly, shortly before the play is to take place, Lolita insists they take their show on the road again. [There are many points at which it seems Lolita is playing Humbert, but this is the most intense subversion of the power dynamic. Lolita makes clear that they are leaving, and they will be going where she wants. She has come to understand her leverage, and is willing to exploit it.] In the second part of the novel, as they are traveling around, Humbert begins to notice that they are being followed. Humbert describes cars tailing them, and men running away or talking to Lolita while Humbert has stepped away from the girl. Of course, we know Humbert is unreliable, and even he is not sure how much he can trust some of these “sightings” as real, as opposed to being products of his imagination. As we are on the subject of Humbert’s unreliable narration, it’s worth discussing that the particular nature of Humbert’s unreliable narration is a central to our relationship to the Humbert character. One might expect an unreliable narrator to hide or rationalize bad behavior, but Humbert not only lets the reader in on his bad behavior but frequently lets us know that he knows what he’s doing is societally (and / or morally) unacceptable. Knowing that he’s behaving badly or irrationally, and still making said choices would seem like it should make Humbert more despicable, but that’s not necessarily the case, at least not fully. Because Humbert is forthright in some regard and because he is so articulate and sensible (if not rational,) one’s reaction to him becomes complicated. I should point out that Humbert does rationalize his behavior, but he does so in a specific way, by acting as though his relationship with Lolita is a loving and, at least somewhat, healthy one. This distorted worldview can be seen in his perception of Clare Quilty, who – to the reader – is Humbert’s mirror image; but to Humbert, Quilty is a monster. On their second road trip, Lolita falls ill and Humbert must take her to the hospital. As he is taking care of business, an unknown individual takes possession of Lolita. Searching high and low, Humbert can’t discover who took her and where they’ve gone. Then one day, after years have passed, Humbert gets a letter from Dolly Schiller (the now married Delores Haze, a.k.a. Lolita) asking for money to get them through until her husband’s new job starts paying. Humbert goes to her, intent on killing the man who dragged her away from him, but – once there – he realizes that Dolly’s husband wasn’t involved in her disappearance. Humbert begs Dolly to come back to him, only to realize that he is to her as Charlotte had been to him, a relationship she put up with to get what she wanted (or, with youthfully naiveté, thought she wanted.) Humbert willingly gives Dolly some money and goes, but only after she tells him who actually absconded with her, i.e. Clare Quilty. The concluding sequence of the novel involves Humbert’s confrontation with Quilty -- surreal and almost comic as it is. This book is definitely worth reading. Nabokov uses language with masterful poeticism, and builds a fascinating character in Humbert. Reader’s who loved “Confederacy of Dunces” will recognize that one doesn’t have to like a lead character to find their life-story intensely readable. But, while everyone hates Ignatius Reilly, one’s feelings for Humbert may be more complicated. He’s both detestable and sympathetic at the same time. The version of the book that I read had a nice epilogue by Nabokov, himself. While I don’t always find such ancillary matter is useful in works of fiction, in this case I got a lot out of it because the book is quite nuanced. If nothing else, I learned that Nabokov reviled all the “symbolism” that critics liked to attribute to his works. I’d highly recommend this book. While it deals in challenging matter, Nabokov leaves a great deal to the reader’s imagination, and so it’s not graphic or explicit as one might expect from a book that’s been so often banned. [Of course, being so banned was reason enough for me to read it.]

Nabokov's Dozen

Author	: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher	: Penguin Classics
Release Date	: 2017-09-07
ISBN 10	: 024130248X
Pages	: 176 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (8 users)

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Download or read book Nabokov's Dozen written by Vladimir Nabokov and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, mangled by it, with nowhere to escape to. Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lurk in all the corners. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they can be snatched, waylay their victims. Like the shimmer of the sea, the gleam of a glass caught by the sun, they sparkle brilliantly only to dissolve again. Two of the stories, 'First Love' and 'Mademoiselle O', are autobiographical, and 'The Assistant Producer' is based on real events, but the rest are pure flights of fantasy - or the stuff that life is weaved of?

Anatomy of a Short Story

Author	: Yuri Leving
Publisher	: A&C Black
Release Date	: 2012-05-24
ISBN 10	: 9781441142634
Pages	: 432 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (426 users)

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Download or read book Anatomy of a Short Story written by Yuri Leving and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique anthology devoted to a single story–“Signs and Symbols” by Vladimir Nabokov–which exposes the way we read and interpret short stories.

Strong Opinions

Author	: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher	: Penguin UK
Release Date	: 2012-09-06
ISBN 10	: 9780141924144
Pages	: 304 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (241 users)

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Download or read book Strong Opinions written by Vladimir Nabokov and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nabokov begins his Strong Opinions: 'I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.' In the interviews collected here - covering everything from his own burgeoning literary celebrity to Kubrick's Lolita to lepidoptery - he is never casual or off-guard. Instead he insisted on receiving questions in advance and always carefully composed his responses. Keen to dismiss those who fail to understand his work and happy to butcher those sacred cows of the literary canon he dislikes, Nabokov is much too entertaining to be infuriating, and these interviews, letters and articles are as engaging, challenging and caustic as anything he ever wrote. Part of a major new series of the works of Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita and Pale Fire, in Penguin Classics.

Terra Incognita. Vladimir Nabokov

Author	: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher	: Penguin UK
Release Date	: 2011-02-15
ISBN 10	: 9780141196169
Pages	: 59 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (961 users)

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Download or read book Terra Incognita. Vladimir Nabokov written by Vladimir Nabokov and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These three stories of menace, magic and melancholy display Vladimir Nabokov's astonishing range and inventiveness. Whether describing an escape across a surreal tropical landscape, a fateful meeting or an unexpected - and threatening - return, each tale shows his dazzling sleight of hand, intellectual playfulness and fantastical imagination.

The Russian Short Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Author	: Linda Saputelli Zimmermann
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1978
ISBN 10	: OCLC:60135386
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (353 users)

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Download or read book The Russian Short Stories of Vladimir Nabokov written by Linda Saputelli Zimmermann and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vintage Nabokov

Author	: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher	: Vintage
Release Date	: 2011-02-16
ISBN 10	: 9780307787248
Pages	: 208 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (872 users)

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Download or read book Vintage Nabokov written by Vladimir Nabokov and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. “It was Nabokov’s gift to bring paradise wherever he alighted.” —John Updike, The New York Review of Books 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 instrument of ecstasy. Vintage Nabokov includes sections 1-10 of his most famous and controversial novel, Lolita; the stories “The Return of Chorb,” “The Aurelian,” “A Forgotten Poet,” “Time and Ebb,” “Signs and Symbols,” “The Vane Sisters,” and “Lance”; and chapter 12 from his memoir Speak, Memory.

Vladimir Nabokov

Author	: Neil Cornwell
Publisher	: Northcote House Pub Limited
Release Date	: 1999
ISBN 10	: 9780746308684
Pages	: 162 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (86 users)

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Download or read book Vladimir Nabokov written by Neil Cornwell and published by Northcote House Pub Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vladimir Nabokov's extraordinary literary career, as a master of Russian and English prose, is unique. Acclaimed in the limited Russian emigre world, under the name of Sirin, Nabokov switched to writing in English and settled in America, a refugee from Hitler's Europe. Exile, memory, lost love and the magic of childhood are among his themes. Neil Cornwell's study, published for the Nabokov centenary, examines five of Nabokov's major novels, plus his short stories and critical writings, situating his work against the ever-expanding mass of VN scholarship, and noting his cultural debt to Russia, Europe, America and the British Isles.

Nabokov's Dozen

Author	: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher	: Penguin UK
Release Date	: 2017-09-07
ISBN 10	: 9780241302491
Pages	: 176 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (24 users)

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Download or read book Nabokov's Dozen written by Vladimir Nabokov and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, mangled by it, with nowhere to escape to. Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lurk in all the corners. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they can be snatched, waylay their victims. Like the shimmer of the sea, the gleam of a glass caught by the sun, they sparkle brilliantly only to dissolve again. Two of the stories, 'First Love' and 'Mademoiselle O', are autobiographical, and 'The Assistant Producer' is based on real events, but the rest are pure flights of fantasy - or the stuff that life is weaved of?

Collected Stories

Author	: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher	: Penguin UK
Release Date	: 2012-09-06
ISBN 10	: 9780141913827
Pages	: 816 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (138 users)

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Download or read book Collected Stories written by Vladimir Nabokov and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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; a shy dreamer makes a deal with the Devil. In these sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy, Nabokov displays an astonishing range of inventiveness, with dazzling sleight of hand, fantastical fairy tales, intellectual games and enchanting glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss. This landmark new collection brings together the best of the short stories of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and author of Lolita and Pale Fire. Part of a major new series of Vladimir Nabokov's work in Penguin Classics.

The Eye

Author	: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher	: Penguin Classics
Release Date	: 1992
ISBN 10	: NWU:35556008568578
Pages	: 103 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (6 users)

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Download or read book The Eye written by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1992 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smurov, a fussily self-conscious Russian tutor, shoots himself after a humiliating beating by his mistress husband. Unsure whether his suicide has been successful or not, Smurov drifts around Berlin, observing his acquaintances, but finds he can discover very little about his own life from the opinions of his distracted fellow-emigres.

Vladimir Nabokov

Author	: Brian Boyd
Publisher	: Princeton University Press
Release Date	: 1991
ISBN 10	: 0691024715
Pages	: 838 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (15 users)

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Download or read book Vladimir Nabokov written by Brian Boyd and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Nabokov's life continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940. He found that supporting himself and his family was not easy--until the astonishing success of Lolita catapulted him to world fame and financial security.

The World of Nabokov's Stories

Author	: Maxim Shrayer
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1999
ISBN 10	: UCSC:32106014222407
Pages	: 424 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (6 users)

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Download or read book The World of Nabokov's Stories written by Maxim Shrayer and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Nabokov's unpublished manuscripts and letters, Shrayer analyzes the paradigms of Nabokov's poetics and tests them in studies of major stories such as "Spring in Fialta" and "Cloud, Castle, Lake." He investigates Nabokov's dialogue with Chekhov and his rivalry with Bunin over such issues as the use of narrative closure and the nature of love. This in-depth analysis places Nabokov's short fiction in the main line of his bilingual and bicultural writing career. Through references to all of Nabokov's stories, as well as to many novels and discursive writings, from the early emigre works of the 1920s to the late American works of the 1970s, Shrayer delineates the principal historical and cultural contexts that shaped Nabokov's development. Most importantly, he reveals the metaphysical, ethical, and aesthetic concerns that shaped one of the most significant bodies of modern fiction.