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= ﻿ A Small Sample of Nabokov's Literary Works =

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 * [[image:ada.jpg width="157" height="240" align="left" caption="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.  " link="http://books.google.com/books?id=xbxpYMFjbIsC&q=ada+of+ardor&dq=ada+of+ardor&hl=en&ei=-vXjTLeSB4OglAf-hsTiDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA"]] || [[image:real_life_of_sebastian_knight.jpg width="149" height="233" align="left" caption="Nabokov's first novel in English, one of his greatest and most overlooked, with a new Introduction by Michael Dirda." link="http://books.google.com/books?id=dATxBeWioaIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=real+life+of+sebastian+knight&hl=en&src=bmrr&ei=t_TjTLr8I8Oclgfl-MXeDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"]] || [[image:lolita.jpg width="154" height="233" align="left" caption="When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist." link="http://books.google.com/books?id=utvB0I_0SZsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=lolita&hl=en&src=bmrr&ei=HO_jTJBygoKUB_TmseQM&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6wEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"]] || [[image:despair.jpg width="152" height="232" align="left" caption="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." link="http://books.google.com/books?id=Nwh8AAAAIAAJ&q=despair&dq=despair&hl=en&ei=be_jTJDvCcWAlAeD29nYDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA"]] || [[image:laughter_in_the_dark.jpg width="148" height="231" align="left" caption="A reissue of the classic novel from the author of Lolita which brilliantly portrays one man's ruin through love and betrayal." link="http://books.google.com/books?id=4uj1Dy_P_YQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=laughter+in+the+dark&hl=en&src=bmrr&ei=l_DjTM27GsOAlAe4y7y1DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"]] ||
 * [[image:king_queen_knave.jpg width="147" height="229" align="left" caption="The novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium store. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife Martha.  " link="http://books.google.com/books?id=hWDnAAAAMAAJ&q=king,+queen,+knave&dq=king,+queen,+knave&hl=en&ei=V_DjTOn9JMOBlAexnMCvDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA"]] || [[image:stories.jpg width="151" height="230" align="left" caption="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." link="http://books.google.com/books?id=On62rRd73qoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+stories+of+vladimir&hl=en&ei=cO7jTPD1H4KKlwfSmoTeDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"]] || [[image:novels.jpg width="141" height="222" align="left" caption="The texts of this volume incorporate Nabokov's penciled corrections in his own copies of his works and correct long-standing errors. They are the most authoritative versions available and have been prepared with the assistance of Dmitri Nabokov, the novelist's son, and Brian Boyd, Nabokov's distinguished biographer." link="http://books.google.com/books?id=dF5cAAAAMAAJ&q=nabokov+memoirs+1941-1951&dq=nabokov+memoirs+1941-1951&hl=en&ei=dvHjTNTTHcOAlAfNkJH0Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBA"]] || [[image:defense.jpg width="150" height="233" align="left" caption="Nabokov's third novel, The 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 chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. " link="http://books.google.com/books?id=yISFSQAACAAJ&dq=the+defense&hl=en&ei=IfTjTNjxE8P_lge10vDaDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAQ"]] || [[image:mary.jpg width="150" height="233" align="left" caption="Mary is a gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia--Nabokov's first novel.  In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of seriocomic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair." link="http://books.google.com/books?id=pE7nAAAAMAAJ&q=mary+nabokov&dq=mary+nabokov&hl=en&ei=bPPjTOTUFsP_lge10vDaDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA"]] ||
 * [[image:pnin.jpg width="148" height="233" caption="One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels,Pninfeatures his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian emigre precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s." link="http://books.google.com/books?id=A171LVf0WSoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Vladimir+Vladimirovich+Nabokov%22&hl=en&ei=2vLjTJrnCoH6lwex4om7Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=3&ved=0CDUQ6wEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false"]] || [[image:pale_fire.jpg width="155" height="233" caption="In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue." link="http://books.google.com/books?id=llxyyAHwug4C&dq=pale+fire&source=gbs_navlinks_s"]] || [[image:look_at_the_harlequins.jpg width="151" height="233" caption="Focusing on the central figures of his life--his four wives, his books, and his muse, Dementia--the book leads us to suspect that the fictions Vadim has created as an author have crossed the line between his life's work and his life itself, as the worlds of reality and literary invention grow increasingly indistinguishable." link="http://books.google.com/books?id=cdo7PgAACAAJ&dq=look+at+the+harlequins&hl=en&ei=UfXjTJGyCoWdlgfszsGbDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQ"]] || [[image:bend_sinister.jpg width="152" height="235" caption="The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote,Bend Sinisteris a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state." link="http://books.google.com/books?id=0LIuSUeNxCMC&q=bend+sinister&dq=bend+sinister&hl=en&ei=oPXjTLrsFcWAlAeZpq2GDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA"]] || [[image:speak.jpg width="144" height="228" caption="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, Despair, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and The Defense. " link="http://books.google.com/books?id=Mr-wAAAAIAAJ&q=speak,+memory&dq=speak,+memory&hl=en&ei=xu_jTLeEMMTflgeo_qGyDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA"]] ||

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==//from: Vladimir Nabokov at Harvard//, a set of two cassette tapes issued by the Poetry Room at Harvard University in 1988. The sound files made available here are used by permission of the Nabokov Estate.==

Film Adaptations - Click to Link to Film Information

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 * [[image:lolmovie.jpg width="158" height="208" caption="Lolita 1997" link="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119558/"]]

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