Vladimir Nabokov

:This page is about the novelist. For his father, the politician, see Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.

List of Works

Fiction

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Novels and novellas

Novels and novellas written in Russian

• (1926) Mashen'ka (????????); English translation: Mary (1970)
• (1928) Korol' Dama Valet (??????, ????, ?????); English translation: King, Queen, Knave (1968)
• (1930) Zashchita Luzhina (?????? ??????); English translation: The Luzhin Defense or The Defense (1964) (also adapted to film, The Luzhin Defence, in 2001)
• (1930) Sogliadatai (?????????? (Eavesdropper)), novella; first publication as a book 1938; English translation: The Eye (1965)
• (1932) Podvig (?????? (Deed)); English translation: Glory (1971)
• (1932) Kamera Obskura (?????? ???????); English translations: Camera Obscura (1936), Laughter in the Dark (1938)
• (1936) Otchayanie (????????); English translation: Despair (1937, 1966)
• (1938) Priglasheniye na kazn' (??????????? ?? ????? (Invitation to an execution)); English translation: Invitation to a Beheading (1959)
• (1938) Dar (???); English translation: The Gift (1963)
• (Unpublished novella, written in 1939) Volshebnik (?????????); English translation: The Enchanter (1985)

Novels written in English

• (1941) The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
• (1947) Bend Sinister
• (1955) Lolita, self-translated into Russian, (1965)
• (1957) Pnin
• (1962) Pale Fire
• (1969) '
• (1972) Transparent Things
• (1974) Look at the Harlequins!
• (1977) The Original of Laura (Unfinished/Unpublished)

Short story collections

• (1929) Vozvrashchenie Chorba ("The Return of Chorb"). Fifteen short stories and twenty-four poems, in Russian, by "V. Sirin".
• (1947) Nine Stories
• (1956) Vesna v Fial'te i drugie rasskazy ("Spring in Fialta and other stories")
• (1958) ' (Also reprinted as Spring in Fialta and First Love and Other Stories.)
• (1966) Nabokov's Quartet
• (1968) Nabokov's Congeries; reprinted as The Portable Nabokov (1971)
• (1973) A Russian Beauty and Other Stories
• (1975) Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories
• (1976) Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
• (1995) The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (alternative title The Collected Stories) -- complete collection of all short stories

Drama

• (1938) Izobretenie Val'sa (The Waltz Invention); English translation The Waltz Invention: A Play in Three Acts (1966)
• (1974) ' (Despite the credits given in the earlier film version, this was not used.)
• (1984) The Man from the USSR and Other Plays

Poetry

• (1916) Stikhi ("Poems"). Sixty-eight poems in Russian.
• (1918) Al'manakh: Dva Puti (An Almanac: Two Paths"). Twelve poems by Nabokov and eight by Andrei Balashov, in Russian.
• (1922) Grozd ("The Cluster"). Thirty-six poems in Russian, by "V. Sirin".
• (1923) Gornii Put ("The Empyrean Path"). One hundred and twenty-eight poems in Russian, by "Vl. Sirin".
• (1929) Vozvrashchenie Chorba ("The Return of Chorb"). Fifteen short stories and twenty-four poems, in Russian, by "V. Sirin".
• (1952) Stikhotvoreniia 1929–1951 ("Poems 1929–1951") Fifteen poems in Russian.
• (1959) Poems. The contents were later incorporated within Poems and Problems.
• (1971) Poems and Problems (a collection of poetry and chess problems) ISBN 0070457247
• (1979) Stikhi ("Poems"). Two hundred and twenty-two poems in Russian.

Translations

From French into Russian

• (1922) Nikolka Persik Translation of Romain Rolland's novel Colas Breugnon.

From English into Russian

• (1923) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (??? ? ?????? ?????)

From Russian into English

• (1945) Three Russian Poets: Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov, and Tyutchev. Expanded British edition: Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev: Poems (1947)
• (1958) A Hero of our Time, by Mikhail Lermontov.
• (1960) The Song of Igor's Campaign: An Epic of the Twelfth Century
• (1964) Eugene Onegin, by Aleksandr Pushkin, in prose. Includes "Notes on Prosody". Revised edition (1975).

Nonfiction

Criticism

• (1944) Nikolai Gogol
• (1963) Notes on Prosody (Later appeared within Eugene Onegin.)
• (1980) Lectures on Literature
• (1980) Lectures on Ulysses. Facsimiles of Nabokov's notes.
• (1981) Lectures on Russian Literature
• (1983) Lectures on Don Quixote

Autobiographical and other

• (1951) Conclusive Evidence: A Memoir - first version of Nabokov's autobiography. (British edition titled Speak, Memory: A Memoir)
• (1954) Drugie Berega (?????? ??????, "Other Shores") - revised version of the autobiography
• (1967) ' - final revised and extended edition of Conclusive Evidence. It includes information on his work as a lepidopterist.
• (1973) Strong Opinions. Interviews, reviews, letters to editors.
• (1979) The Nabokov–Wilson Letters Letters between Nabokov and Edmund Wilson
• (1984) Perepiska s Sestroi (????????? ? ??????? (Correspondence with the Sister)) Correspondence between Nabokov and Helene Sikorski; also includes some letters to his brother Kirill
• (1987) Carrousel. Three recently rediscovered short texts.
• (1989) Selected Letters

Lepidoptery

• (2000) Nabokov's Butterflies, collected works on butterflies. ISBN 0807085405