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Speak, Memory is Vladimir Nabokov's autobiographical account of his childhood in an aristocratic family in imperial Russia and his later years as an émigré in Western Europe. First published in book form in 1951 and extensively revised in 1966, it is organized as a sequence of thematic recollections...
Vladimir Nabokov’s *Pale Fire* is a 1962 novel centered around a disastrous academic expedition to a remote American university. The story unfolds through a lengthy, intricately crafted poem and its accompanying critical notes written by Charles Kinbote, a displaced scholar. Kinbote's commentary rev...
Vladimir Nabokov’s *Pnin* chronicles the life of Timofey Pnin, a disoriented and melancholic Russian professor teaching literature at Waindell College in the 1950s. The novel explores themes of displacement, intellectual isolation, and the challenges of adapting to American academic culture. It is n...
*Invitation to a Beheading* is a novel by Russian-American author Vladimir Nabokov, originally written in Russian and serialized in 1935 and 1936. The plot centers on Cincinnatus C., a man imprisoned and sentenced to death in an opaque, surreal totalitarian society for the crime of gnostical turpitu...
Benjamin Britten’s ballet *Don Quixote* (1965), choreographed by George Balanchine, portrays the delusional knight’s tilting at windmills and his passionate, albeit misguided, pursuit of Dulcinea, set to a score featuring distinctive Spanish influences.
1962 British-American black comedy directed by Stanley Kubrick, adapted from Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel about a professor's obsession with a young adolescent girl.
Bend Sinister is a 1947 philosophical novel written by Vladimir Nabokov, notable for being his first work composed in English. The narrative follows Adam Krug, an eminent philosopher living in a fictional European state that has been overtaken by a brutal totalitarian regime led by his former school...
"Poems and Problems" is a 1970 collection by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov, notable for combining his original English verse, Russian translations, and 53 chess puzzles.
