Vladimir Nabokov

A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed - according to Nabokov's fiction - by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life....

From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time....

One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character....

From Vladimir Nabokov, the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, comes a magnificent collection of stories....

"Lolita, Licht meines Lebens, Feuer meiner Lenden. Meine Sünde, meine Seele. Lo-li-ta: die Zungenspitze macht drei Sprünge den Gaumen...

In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude." an imaginary crime that defies definition....

The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America, and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic....

Nabokov’s third novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness....

La primera edicion de "Lolita" apareció en París en 1955, publicada por Olympia Press, una editorial con acreditada gama de pornográfica...

Ada, or Ardor tells a love story troubled by incest, but it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue....

As intricate as a house of mirrors, Nabokov’s last novel is an ironic play on the Janus-like relationship between fiction and reality....

The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native language and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career....

Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime: his own murder....

Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star....

" Transparent Things revolves around four visits of the hero - sullen, gawky Hugh Person - to Switzerland....

Nabokov’s fourth novel, The Eye, is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances....

Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a 22-year-old Russian émigré of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him....

This novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men’s clothing emporium....

Strazio e incanto, insieme a scintillante ironia, abbondano in Lolita, il romanzo più celebre di Nabokov che racconta la storia dell'ossessiva...

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the first novel Nabokov wrote in English, is a tantalizing literary mystery....