March 31, 2017 | History

Vladimir Nabokov

22 April 1899 - 2 July 1977

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков; 23 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899c – 2 July 1977) was a multilingual Russian-American novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made contributions to entomology and had an interest in chess problems.

Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is frequently cited as among his most important novels and is his most widely known, exhibiting the love of intricate word play and synesthetic detail that characterised all his works. The novel was ranked at #4 in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels. Pale Fire (1962) was ranked at #53 on the same list. His memoir entitled Speak, Memory was listed #8 on the Modern Library nonfiction list. (Source.)

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Lolita
93 editions - first published in 1955 DAISY
Pale fire: a novel
30 editions - first published in 1962 DAISY
Speak, memory: an autobiography revisited
29 editions - first published in 1951 DAISY
Kamera obskura
28 editions - first published in 1930 DAISY
Dar
28 editions - first published in 1952 DAISY
Pnin
27 editions - first published in 1957 DAISY
Korolʹ, dama, valet
23 editions - first published in 1928 DAISY
Invitation to a Beheading: A Novel
19 editions - first published in 1959 Borrow
Bend sinister
18 editions - first published in 1947 Borrow
Short stories
17 editions - first published in 1958 Borrow
Mashenʹka: a novel
17 editions - first published in 1970 DAISY
Podvig: a novel
16 editions - first published in 1932 DAISY
The real life of Sebastian Knight
16 editions - first published in 1941
Despair: a novel
15 editions - first published in 1937 DAISY
The eye
13 editions - first published in 1965
Zashchita Luzhina
13 editions - first published in 1930
Lectures on literature
12 editions - first published in 1980 DAISY
Nikolai Gogol
10 editions - first published in 1944
The defense: a novel
9 editions - first published in 1964 Borrow
Ada, or Ardor: a family chronicle
8 editions - first published in 1969
Transparent things: a novel
8 editions - first published in 1972 DAISY
Nabokov's quartet
8 editions - first published in 1966
Poems
8 editions - first published in 1959
A Russian beauty and other stories
8 editions - first published in 1973
Lectures on Russian Literature
8 editions - first published in 1981 DAISY
ADA, Or, Ardor, a Family Chronicle
6 editions - first published in 1980 DAISY
Ada: or, Ardor: a family chronicle
6 editions - first published in 1969 DAISY
Novels, 1955-1962
6 editions - first published in 1988
Strong opinions
6 editions - first published in 1973 DAISY
Volshebnik
6 editions - first published in 1986 Borrow
Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977
6 editions - first published in 1989
Priglashenie na kaznʹ
5 editions - first published in 1938
Details of a sunset and other stories
4 editions - first published in 1976
Look at the harlequins!
4 editions - first published in 1974 DAISY
Lectures on Don Quixote
4 editions - first published in 1983
The portable Nabokov: selected, with a critical introduction, by Page Stegner.
4 editions - first published in 1971 Borrow
The Waltz invention: a play in three acts
4 editions - first published in 1966 Borrow
Nabokov's butterflies: unpublished and uncollected writings
4 editions - first published in 2000
Vozvrashchenie Chorba
3 editions - first published in 1930
La défense Loujine
3 editions - first published in 1964
Drugie berega
3 editions - first published in 1954
Romany
3 editions - first published in 1990
Combray
3 editions - first published in 1952
The man from the USSR and other plays: with two essays on the drama
3 editions - first published in 1984
Lolita
3 editions - first published in 1955
Notes on prosody: from the commentary to his translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
3 editions - first published in 1963
Poems and problems
3 editions - first published in 1970 DAISY
The original of Laura (Dying is fun)
3 editions - first published in 2009 DAISY
Tyrants destroyed and other stories
3 editions - first published in 1975 DAISY
The Nabokov-Wilson letters: Correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson, 1940-1971
3 editions - first published in 1979
Nabokov's congeries: Selected, with a critical introd., by Page Stegner.
3 editions - first published in 1968 Borrow
Eye, the
2 editions - first published in 1999
Maschenka
2 editions - first published in 1976
Chambre obscure
2 editions - first published in 1934
Nabokovs Dozen Uk
2 editions - first published in 1990
Verzweiflung
2 editions - first published in 1972
Risa En La Oscuridad
2 editions - first published in 2000
Rey Dama Valet
2 editions - first published in 1996
Ada oder Das Verlangen. Aus den Annalen einer Familie
2 editions - first published in 1977
Das wahre Leben des Sebastian Knight
2 editions - first published in 1960
Curso Sobre El Quijote
2 editions - first published in 1998
Sogliadatai: Sobranie Rasskazov I Povestei
2 editions - first published in 1978
Tyrants Destroyed and Other Short Stories
2 editions - first published in 1981
Le Don
2 editions - first published in 1967
Conclusive evidence: a memoir
2 editions - first published in 1951
L' enchanteur
2 editions - first published in 1988
Mary - A novel
2 editions - first published in 1970
Sobranie Sochinenii
2 editions - first published in 1989
Machenka
2 editions - first published in 1981
Novels and memoirs, 1941-1951: The real life of Sebastian Knight, Bend sinister, Speak memory, an autobiography revisited
2 editions - first published in 1996
Poems and Problems (McGraw-Hill paperbacks)
2 editions - first published in 1985
Nikolay Gogol
2 editions - first published in 1971
Vesna v Fialʹte: i drugie rasskazy.
2 editions - first published in 1956
Sobranie sochineniĭ v chetyrekh tomakh
2 editions - first published in 1990
Pʹesy: [sostavlenie, statʹi︠a︡ i kommentariĭ Iv. Tolstogo]
2 editions - first published in 1990
La Méprise
2 editions - first published in 1939
Autres rivages: Souvenirs
2 editions - first published in 1989
Ada, ou, L'ardeur: Chronique familiale
2 editions - first published in 1989
Alphabet in color
2 editions - first published in 2005
The Provisional Government
2 editions - first published in 1970
Speak Memory an Autobiography Revisited
2 editions - first published in 1969 DAISY
Izbrannye proizvedenii︠a︡
2 editions - first published in 1989
Drugie berega: Roman; Vesna v Fial'te: Rasskazy
1 edition - first published in 2004
Zaschita Luzhina; Podvig; Soglyadataj: Romany, rasskazy (komm. Darka O.)
1 edition - first published in 2004
Lolita. Mashenka. Zaschita Luzhina
1 edition - first published in 2005
Ada oder Das Verlangen. Aus den Annalen einer Familie
1 edition - first published in 1983
Ada, ili Erotiada
1 edition - first published in 2006
Vozvraschenie Chorba (Klassicheskaya i sovremennaya proza)
1 edition - first published in 2001
Vozurashchenie Chorba
1 edition - first published in 1976
Lolita. Korol', dama, valet. Podvig
1 edition - first published in 2004
Dar. Rasskazy (Zarubezhnaya proza KhKh veka)
1 edition - first published in 2003
Korol', dama, valet. Mashen'ka. Vozvraschenie Chorba
1 edition - first published in 2004
Sieh doch die Harlekins
1 edition - first published in 1979
El Hechicero
1 edition - first published in 1999
Gesammelte Werke 14. Erzählungen 2. 1935 - 1951
1 edition - first published in 1989
Ada Ili Strast'
1 edition
Einladung zur Enthauptung
1 edition - first published in 1999
Gesammelte Werke 16. Nikolay Gogol
1 edition - first published in 1990
ADA O El Ardor
1 edition - first published in 1995
Die Gabe
1 edition - first published in 1999

Places

Soviet Union, Russia, United States, Berlin, Russia (Federation), Switzerland

People

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977), Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837), Vladimir Nabokov (1869-1922), Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Edmund Wilson (1895-1972), Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ (1809-1852), Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977,), A. S. Pushkin (1799-1837), Abram Petrovich Gannibal (1697?-1781), Altagracia de Jannelli, Borïs Rapchïnskiï (1887-), Charles Duncan Michener (1918-), Elena Vladimirovna Sikorskai︠a︡ (1906-), Gaston Baty, Gleb Struve, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin (1870-1953), Ivan Lukash (1892-1940), I︠U︡. I. Aĭkhenvalʹd (1872-1928), Jarl Priel, Mark Aleksandrovich Aldanov (1886-1957), Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), N. V. Gogol' (1809-1852), Nathan Banks (b. 1868), Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol (1809-1852), Nikolay Gogol

Time

20th century, 19th century, Revolution, 1917-1921, 1917-1936, February Revolution, 1917

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Alternative names

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
V Nabokov
Nabokov V.V.
Vladmir Nabokov
Vladīmir Vladimirovich Nabokov
V. NABOKOV
Vladimir Vladimirovic Nabokov
Vladimir V. Nabokov
Nabokov Vladimir.
Vladimir. Nabokov

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