Vladimir Nabokov bibliography

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This is a list of works by writer Vladimir Nabokov.

Contents
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1Fiction
1.1Novels and novellas

1.1.1Novels and novellas written in Russian

1.1.2Novels written in English

1.2Short story collections

1.3Uncollected short stories

1.4Drama

1.5Poetry

1.6Translations

1.6.1From French into Russian

1.6.2From English into Russian

1.6.3From Russian into English

2Nonfiction

2.1Criticism

2.2Autobiographical and other

2.3Lepidopteral

3Collected works

4References

5External links

Fiction[edit]
Novels and novellas[edit]

Samizdat copies of Nabokov's works on display at Nabokov House

Novels and novellas written in Russian[edit]

(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 2000)

(1930) Sogliadatai ( (The Voyeur)), novella; first publication as a book

1938; English translation: The Eye (1965)

(1932) Podvig ( (Deed)); English translation: Glory (1971)

(1933) Kamera Obskura ( ); English translations: Camera
Obscura (1936), Laughter in the Dark (1938)
(1934) Otchayanie (); English translation: Despair (1937, 1965)
(1936) 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(Unpublished novella, written in 1939) Volshebnik (); English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[edit]

(1941) The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

(1947) Bend Sinister

(1955) Lolita, self-translated into Russian (1965)

(1957) Pnin

(1962) Pale Fire

(1969) Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

(1972) Transparent Things

(1974) Look at the Harlequins!

(2009) The Original of Laura (fragmentary, written during the mid-1970s and
published posthumously)[1]

Short story collections[edit]

(1930) Vozvrashchenie Chorba ("The Return of Chorb"). Fifteen short stories and
twenty-four poems, in Russian, by "V. Sirin".

(1938) Sogliadatai ("The Eye"). Thirteen short stories, in Russian, by "V. Sirin".

(1947) Nine Stories

(1956) Vesna v Fial'te i drugie rasskazy ("Spring in Fialta and other stories")

(1958) Nabokov's Dozen: A Collection of Thirteen Stories (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

Uncollected short stories[edit]

(1948) "Colette". The New Yorker, July 31, 1948[2]

(2005) "The Word". The New Yorker, December 6, 2005[3]

(2008) "Natasha". The New Yorker, June 9 & 16, 2008[4]

(2015) "The Man Stopped". Harper's Magazine, March 2015[5]

Drama[edit]

(1938) Izobretenie Val'sa (The Waltz Invention); English translation The Waltz
Invention: A Play in Three Acts (1966)

The Tragedy of Mister Morn (2012): English translation of a Russian-language play

written 192324, publicly read 1924, published in a journal 1997, independently
published 2008

(1974) Lolita: A Screenplay (Despite the credits given in the earlier film version, this
was not used.)
(1984) The Man from the USSR and Other Plays

Poetry[edit]

(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 19291951 ("Poems 19291951") Fifteen poems in Russian.

(1959) Poems. The contents were later incorporated within Poems and Problems.

(1969) Poems and Problems (a collection of poetry and chess problems). The
contents were later incorporated within Selected Poems.

(1979) Stikhi ("Poems"). Two hundred and twenty-two poems in Russian.

(2012) Selected Poems

Translations[edit]
From French into Russian[edit]

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

From English into Russian[edit]

(1923) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (as )

From Russian into English[edit]

(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. (Collaboration with his son
Dmitri.)

(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).

(2008) Verses and Versions (edited by Brian Boyd and Stanislav Shvabrin),
includes materials previously published in Three Russian Poets (1945) and Pushkin,
Lermontov, Tyutchev (1947) as well as unpublished materials.

Nonfiction[edit]
Criticism[edit]

(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[edit]

(1949) "Curtain-Raiser". The New Yorker 24/45 (1 January 1949): 18-21.

(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) Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited - 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 NabokovWilson 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 long-forgotten short texts that had recently been
rediscovered.

(1989) Selected Letters

(2001) Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The NabokovWilson Letters, 19401971. A

revised and augmented edition of The NabokovWilson Letters.

(2014) Letters to Vra. Nabokov's letters to Vra Slonim, beginning in 1921 and
extending through their marriage.

Lepidopteral[edit]

(2000) Nabokov's Butterflies, collected works on butterflies. ISBN 0-8070-8540-5

Collected works[edit]

Boyd, Brian, ed. Vladimir Nabokov, Novels and Memoirs 19411951 (Library of
America, 1996) ISBN 978-1-883011-18-5

Boyd, Brian, ed. Vladimir Nabokov, Novels 19551962 (Library of America,

1996) ISBN 978-1-883011-19-2

Boyd, Brian, ed. Vladimir Nabokov, Novels 19691974 (Library of America,

1996) ISBN 978-1-883011-20-8

References[edit]
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2. Jump up^ Here at the New Yorker (subscription only).
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4. Jump up^ Here at the New Yorker.
5. Jump up^ http://harpers.org/archive/2015/03/the-man-stopped/