Nabokov House is a house in Saint Petersburg with the modern street number of 47 Great Morskaya Street (Bol'shaia morskaia ulitsa), 190000. In 1897, the...
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ nɐˈbokəf] ; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 – 2 July...
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Dmitri Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Дми́трий Влади́мирович Набо́ков; May 10, 1934 – February 22, 2012) was an American opera singer and translator...
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Russian-American author Vladimir Nabokov. Nabokov was born in Tsarskoe Selo, into a wealthy and aristocratic family. His father Dmitry Nabokov (1827–1904) was a Justice...
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This is a list of works by writer Vladimir Nabokov. (1926) Mashen'ka (Машенька); English translation: Mary (1970) (1928) Korol', dama, valet (Король,...
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1991) was the wife, editor, and translator of Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, and a source of inspiration for many of his works. Born Vera Yevseyevna...
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Speak, Memory (category Books by Vladimir Nabokov)
writer Vladimir Nabokov. The book includes individual essays published between 1936 and 1951 to create the first edition in 1951. Nabokov's revised and extended...
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little with Vladimir. Sergey spent the first years of his life at the Nabokov house on Bolshaya Morskaya Street in Saint Petersburg, and at the family's...
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Lolita (category Novels by Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov that addresses the controversial subject of hebephilia. The protagonist is...
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Mary (Russian: Машенька, Mašen'ka) is the debut novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published under the pen name V. Sirin in 1926 by Russian-language publisher...
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Rozhdestveno Memorial Estate (category Vladimir Nabokov)
house museum and park near Siverskaya, Gatchinsky District, Leningrad Oblast, that commemorates the most famous owner of the estate, Vladimir Nabokov;...
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Pale Fire (category Novels by Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire is a 1962 novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is presented as a 999-line poem titled "Pale Fire", written by the fictional poet John Shade...
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Lolita (term) (section Nabokov's Lolita)
a young girl as "precociously seductive." It originates from Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita, which portrays the narrator Humbert's sexual obsession...
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Vladimir Nabokov (in some British editions, The Collected Stories) is a posthumous collection of every known short story that Vladimir Nabokov ever wrote...
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The Eye (novel) (redirect from The Eye (Nabokov))
Vladimir Nabokov's fourth novel. It was translated into English by the author's son Dmitri Nabokov in 1965. At around 80 pages, The Eye is Nabokov's shortest...
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Glory (Russian: Подвиг) is a Russian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov between 1930 and 1932 and first published in Paris. The novel has been seen by...
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Pnin (novel) (category Novels by Vladimir Nabokov)
Vladimir Nabokov's 13th novel and his fourth written in English; it was published in 1957. The success of Pnin in the United States launched Nabokov's career...
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romanized: Dar) is Vladimir Nabokov's final Russian novel, and is considered to be his farewell to the world he was leaving behind. Nabokov wrote it between 1935...
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Lolita (1962 film) (category Films based on works by Vladimir Nabokov)
Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. The black-and-white film follows a middle-aged literature lecturer who...
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Lolita (1997 film) (category Films based on works by Vladimir Nabokov)
written by Stephen Schiff. It is the second screen adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel of the same name and stars Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert...
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Museum of Communications, museums of Murmansk, Novosibirsk, Yaroslavl, Nabokov House and others. He was not married and has no children. Ustyugov was diagnosed...
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(2003). Bleak House. New York: The Penguin Group. pp. 30. ISBN 978-0-141-43972-3. Vladimir, Nabokov (1980). "Charles Dickens: Bleak House". Lectures on...
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Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (category Novels by Vladimir Nabokov)
Family Chronicle is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969. Ada began to materialize in 1959, when Nabokov was flirting with two projects, "The Texture...
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There are several English translations, including one by Vladimir Nabokov and Dmitri Nabokov in 1958. Pechorin is the embodiment of the Byronic hero. Byron's...
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Despair (novel) (category Novels by Vladimir Nabokov)
Despair (Russian: Отчаяние, or Otchayanie) is the seventh novel by Vladimir Nabokov, originally published in Russian, serially in the politicized literary...
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Invitation to a Beheading (category Novels by Vladimir Nabokov)
into English by Nabokov's son, Dmitri Nabokov, under the author's supervision. The novel is often described as Kafkaesque, but Nabokov claimed that at...
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Nabokovia (category Vladimir Nabokov)
of butterflies, named by Arthur Francis Hemming in honour of Vladimir Nabokov, who extensively studied the Polyommatinae subfamily. Three species are...
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Anna Akhmatova (Fountain House) Museum and Brodsky's apartment in St. Petersburg Mikhail Zoshchenko's apartment Nabokov House Ostap Bender Arkhip Kuindzhi...
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The Defense (category Novels by Vladimir Nabokov)
under Nabokov's pen name V. Sirin in the Russian emigre quarterly Sovremennye zapiski and was thereafter published by the emigre publishing house Slovo...
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on 2017-11-22. Retrieved 2016-11-13. "Sandra Cisneros, this year's PEN/Nabokov award winner, says she's just getting started". NBC News. 12 February 2019...
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