Posthumously published collection of previously uncollected essays, reviews, interviews, and letters to the editor.
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) was a Russian-born American novelist, poet, translator, critic, and lepidopterist who wrote in Russian and English.
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Posthumously published collection of interviews.
Written in summer 1926. First English publication in Harper's Magazine, March 2015. Translated by Gennady Barabtarlo.
Posthumously published collection of Nabokov's letters to Véra Slonim, beginning in 1921. Edited and translated by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd.
Posthumous English-language collection edited by Thomas Karshan.
Original Russian title: Трагедия господина Морна (Tragediya gospodina Morna). Five-act verse tragedy written in 1923–24, when Nabokov was twenty-four. Published posthumously in all forms. Russian text first appeared in Zvezda magazine in 1997 and as a standalone Russian book in 2008. English translation by Thomas Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy published in 2012.
Published posthumously. Nabokov's unfinished final novel, reconstructed from manuscript index cards and edited for publication by Dmitri Nabokov.
Written c. 1921. First English publication in The New Yorker, June 9 & 16, 2008. Later incorporated into printings of The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov.
Written January 7, 1923. First English publication in The New Yorker.
Posthumously published revised and augmented edition of The Nabokov–Wilson Letters.
Posthumous collection of Nabokov's lepidopterological writings. Edited by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle.
Also published as The Collected Stories. Complete collection of all short fiction known at the time.
Published posthumously. Edited by Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew J. Bruccoli.
Posthumously published collection of three rediscovered short texts written in 1923 for the Karussel cabaret. Issued in two limited editions of 100 and 150 copies.
Original Russian title: Волшебник (Volshebnik). Written in 1939 and unpublished during Nabokov's lifetime. The English translation by Dmitri Nabokov was published posthumously in 1986. The work is considered a thematic precursor to Lolita.
English title: The Enchanter. Written in Russian in 1939 but unpublished during Nabokov's lifetime; it was published posthumously in Russian in 1986 and later in English translation.
Original Russian title: Переписка с сестрой (Perepiska s sestroi). Posthumously published letters to Helene Sikorski, with some letters to Nabokov's brother Kirill.
Posthumous collection of dramatic works, including earlier untranslated plays.
Published posthumously. Edited by Fredson Bowers.
Published posthumously. Edited by Fredson Bowers.
Published posthumously. Edited by Fredson Bowers.
Published posthumously. Facsimile edition of Nabokov's teaching notes.
Original Russian title: Стихи (Stikhi). Posthumous collection containing 222 poems.
Posthumously published correspondence with Edmund Wilson. Edited by Simon Karlinsky.
Interview by Robert Robinson; filmed for the BBC Book Programme on February 14, 1977 and published March 24, 1977.
Written in 1960. Nabokov's own screenplay for Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of Lolita; largely unused in the released 1962 film. Published in 1974.
Nabokov's final completed novel published during his lifetime.
Collection of interviews, reviews, and letters to editors.
Interview by Israel Shenker; published January 9, 1972. Later included in Strong Opinions.
Interview by Alfred Appel Jr.; published Spring 1971. Later included in Strong Opinions.
Interview by Alden Whitman; published April 23, 1971. Later included in Strong Opinions.
Interview by Martha Duffy and R. Z. Sheppard; published May 23, 1969. Later included in Strong Opinions.
Interview by Alden Whitman; published April 19, 1969. A revised version was included in Strong Opinions.
Interview by Philip Oakes; published June 22, 1969. Later included in Strong Opinions.
Mixed collection containing poetry and chess problems.
Interview by Allene Talmey; published December 1969. Later included in Strong Opinions.
Interview by Martin Esslin; published May 12, 1968. Later included in Strong Opinions.
Reprinted as The Portable Nabokov in 1971.
Interview by Nicholas Garnham; published October 10, 1968, from a BBC interview. Later included in Strong Opinions.
Interview by Alfred Appel Jr.; conducted September 25–29, 1966. Later included in Strong Opinions.
Final, revised and extended edition of Conclusive Evidence; covers the years 1903–1940.
Interview by Herbert Gold with additional questions by George A. Plimpton. Later included in Strong Opinions.
Original Russian title: Изобретение вальса (Izobretenie val'sa). Written and first published in Russian in journal form in 1938. English translation published by Phaedra in 1966.
Interview by Alvin Toffler. Later included in Strong Opinions.
Later incorporated into the apparatus for Nabokov's translation and commentary on Eugene Onegin.
Interview/profile by John G. Hayman.
English-language poetry collection. Its contents were later incorporated into Poems and Problems.
Reprinted as Spring in Fialta and First Love and Other Stories.
Original Russian title: Весна в Фиальте и другие рассказы (Vesna v Fial'te i drugie rasskazy). Russian-language collection.
First published in The New Yorker. Reprinted by The New Yorker on September 6, 2021.
First edition, published in two volumes. First US edition: G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1958. First UK edition: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1959.
Original Russian title: Другие берега (Drugie berega). Revised Russian-language version of Nabokov's autobiography.
Original Russian title: Стихотворения 1929–1951 (Stikhotvoreniia 1929–1951). Contains fifteen poems.
Original Russian title: Дар (Dar). An incomplete version was serialized in Sovremennye zapiski in Paris in 1937–1938, with Chapter 4 omitted. The complete text was first published in book form by Chekhov Publishing House in New York in 1952.
English title: The Gift. The Russian novel was serialized in Sovremennye zapiski in 1937–1938 without Chapter Four. The complete Russian text was first published in book form in New York in 1952.
First version of Nabokov's autobiography. A British edition was published by Victor Gollancz in London in 1951 under the title Speak, Memory.
First English publication in The New Yorker. Later incorporated into Speak, Memory.
Critical study of Nikolai Gogol.
Nabokov's first English-language novel.
Original Russian title: Приглашение на казнь (Priglashenie na kazn'). First serialized in Sovremennye zapiski, 1935–1936; first book publication by Dom Knigi in Paris in November 1938.
Original Russian title: Соглядатай (Sogliadatai). Russian-language collection containing thirteen short stories.
English title: Invitation to a Beheading. Translated into English by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with Vladimir Nabokov and published in 1959. The Russian original was serialized in Sovremennye zapiski in 1935–1936 and published in book form in Paris in 1938 under the name V. Sirin.
English title: The Eye. The Russian work first appeared in Sovremennye zapiski in 1930; the first separate book edition appeared in 1938 under the name V. Sirin.
Original Russian title: Отчаяние (Otchayanie). First serialized in Sovremennye zapiski in 1934; first book publication in Berlin in 1936. Nabokov later translated and revised the novel in English.
English title: Despair. Nabokov translated the novel into English for its 1937 publication and later revised the English text. The Russian original was serialized in Sovremennye zapiski and published in book form in Berlin in 1936 under the name V. Sirin.
Original Russian title: Камера обскура (Kamera Obskura). Russian book edition published in Berlin in 1933. An English translation by Winifred Ray appeared as Camera Obscura in 1935; Nabokov substantially revised and translated the novel himself as Laughter in the Dark in 1938.
English publication history: Camera Obscura (1936), translated by Winifred Roy, was disavowed by Nabokov. Nabokov substantially revised the novel for the 1938 English version, published as Laughter in the Dark.
English title: Glory. Published under the name V. Sirin. The novel appeared serially in Sovremennye zapiski in 1931 and was published in book form on November 6, 1932.
Original Russian title: Подвиг (Podvig). First serialized in Sovremennye zapiski. A first-edition book is dated 1932; the first book publisher remains unverified in the research record.
Original Russian title: Соглядатай (Sogliadatai). First published in journal form in 1930. First book publication: Dom Knigi, Paris, 1938.
Original Russian title: Защита Лужина (Zashchita Luzhina). First serialized in Sovremennye zapiski in Paris in 1930; book publication followed in Berlin in 1930. Also published in English as The Defense.
Original Russian title: Возвращение Чорба (Vozvrashchenie Chorba). Published in 1929/1930 under the pen name V. Sirin. Mixed collection containing fifteen short stories and twenty-four poems.
English title: The Defense. English translation by Michael Scammell in collaboration with Vladimir Nabokov, published in 1964. The Russian original was serialized in Sovremennye zapiski from 1929 to 1930 and published in book form by Slovo in September 1930 under the name V. Sirin.
Original Russian title: Король, дама, валет (Korol', dama, valet). First published in October 1928 under the pen name V. Sirin.
English title: King, Queen, Knave. English translation by Dmitri Nabokov, extensively revised by Vladimir Nabokov, published in 1968. The Russian original was published under the name V. Sirin.
English title: Mary. English translation by Michael Glenny in collaboration with Vladimir Nabokov, published in 1970. Nabokov's first novel, originally published under the name V. Sirin. First printing dated March 21, 1926.
Original Russian title: Машенька (Mashen'ka). Published under the pen name V. Sirin. Nabokov's first novel.
Original Russian title: Горний путь (Gornii put'). Contains 128 poems. Published under the pen name Vl. Sirin.
Original Russian title: Гроздь (Grozd'). Contains thirty-six poems. Published under the pen name V. Sirin.
Original Russian title: Альманах: Два пути (Al'manakh: Dva puti). Contains twelve poems by Vladimir Nabokov and eight by Andrei Balashov.
Original Russian title: Стихи (Stikhi). Nabokov's first book; self-published. Contains sixty-eight poems. Limited edition of 500 copies.