<div>&ldquo;Wonderful, compulsively readable, delicious&rdquo; personal correspondences, spanning decades in the life and literary career of the author of Lolita (The Washington Post Book World). An icon of twentieth-century literature, Vladimir Nabokov was a novelist, poet, and playwright, whose personal life was a fascinating story in itself. This collection of more than four hundred letters chronicles the author&rsquo;s career, recording his struggles in the publishing world, the battles over Lolita, and his relationship with his wife, among other subjects, and gives a surprising look at the personality behind the creator of such classics as Pale Fire and Pnin. &ldquo;Dip in anywhere, and delight follows.&rdquo; &mdash;John Updike</div>

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Selected Letters, 1940–1977

<div>Early dramatic works&mdash;plus two essays&mdash;by the author of Lolita and Pale Fire. Including The Man from the USSR, The Event, The Pole, and The Grand-dad, this volume collects works for the theater written during Vladimir Nabokov&rsquo;s &eacute;migr&eacute; years, before his writings in English earned him worldwide fame and made him a seven-time National Book Award finalist. Also included are two of his essays on drama: &ldquo;Playwriting&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Tragedy of Tragedy.&rdquo; Translated and with introductions by Dmitri Nabokov, this collection offers a fascinating glimpse into the work of the novelist, one of the twentieth century&rsquo;s acknowledged literary geniuses.</div>

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