<div>The author of Lolita translates the celebrated, medieval epic Russian poem about a doomed campaign led by Prince Igor Sviatoslavich the Brave. A chivalric expedition is undertaken in the late twelfth century by a minor prince in the land of Rus’ to defeat, against overwhelming odds, a powerful alliance in a neighboring territory. The anonymous poet who chronicled this adventure packed unprecedented metaphorical agility, keenness of observation, and fascinating imagery into the lean and powerful tale of the doomed campaign. Discovered in the late eighteenth century and only narrowly distributed, the original manuscript was destroyed in a fire, leading to endless debate about the provenance and authenticity of the extant versions. It also served as the basis of Borodin’s opera Prince Igor. Translated by Vladimir Nabokov, the verses that constitute “The Song of Igor’s Campaign” are presented in their original rhyme and meter, and Nabokov’s extensive annotations provide illuminations on all the aspects of the text.</div>

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<div>Little-known literary works by Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, and more: &ldquo;[An] extraordinary collection of inexplicably forgotten treasures.&rdquo; &mdash;New York magazine Radical Shadows collects lost, forgotten, suppressed, rare, or unknown works by major literary writers from the late nineteenth century forward. From previously unpublished work by Djuna Barnes and Truman Capote (his earliest known story), to writing by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Kawabata, Musil, and other world-class authors, the issue is a celebration both of the art of translation and of the breadth and depth of the many revelatory discoveries that can still be found in the historical literary archive.</div>

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<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>One of the twentieth century&rsquo;s greatest novelists offers his take on the Spanish classic. The author of Lolita and Pale Fire was not only a master of fiction but a distinguished literary critic as well. In this collection of lectures, which he delivered at Harvard in the early 1950s, Vladimir Nabokov shares insights based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the seventeenth-century novel by Miguel de Cervantes, a timeless classic and one of the most deeply influential works in all of Western literature. Rejecting the common interpretation of Don Quixote as a warm satire, Nabokov perceives the work as a catalog of cruelty through which the gaunt knight passes. Edited and with a preface by Fredson Bowers, this volume offers &ldquo;a powerful, critical, and dramatic elaboration of the theme of illusion&rdquo; (V. S. Pritchett, The New York Review of Books). </div>

Lectures on Don Quixote

<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>

The Man from the U.S.S.R.

<div>The acclaimed author of Lolita offers unique insight into works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, and others&mdash;with an introduction by John Updike. In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov&rsquo;s teaching, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, as he introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. This volume collects Nabokov&rsquo;s famous lectures on Western European literature, with analysis and commentary on Charles Dickens&rsquo;s Bleak House, Gustav Flaubert&rsquo;s Madam Bovary, Marcel Proust&rsquo;s The Walk by Swann&rsquo;s Place, Robert Louis Stevenson&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,&rdquo; and other works. This volume also includes photographic reproductions of Nabokov&rsquo;s original notes, revealing his own edits, underlined passages, and more. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers Introduction by John Updike</div>

Lectures on Literature

<div>The acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevski, Gogol, Gorki, and Chekhov. In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov&rsquo;s teaching, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, as he introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. This volume collects Nabokov&rsquo;s famous lectures on 19th century Russian literature, with analysis and commentary on Nikolay Gogol&rsquo;s Dead Souls and &ldquo;The Overcoat&rdquo;; Ivan Turgenev&rsquo;s Fathers and Sons; Maxim Gorki&rsquo;s &ldquo;On the Rafts&rdquo;; Leo Tolstoy&rsquo;s Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilych; two short stories and a play by Anton Chekhov; and several works by Fyodor Dostoevski, including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Possessed. This volume also includes Nabokov&rsquo;s lectures on the art of translation, the nature of Russian censorship, and other topics. Featured throughout the volume are photographic reproductions of Nabokov&rsquo;s original notes. &ldquo;This volume . . . never once fails to instruct and stimulate. This is a great Russian talking of great Russians.&rdquo; &mdash;Anthony Burgess Introduction by Fredson Bowers</div>

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The Song of Igor's Campaign

Selected Letters, 1940–1977

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Books By Vladimir Nabokov (6 Books)

The Song of Igor's Campaign

Selected Letters, 1940–1977

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The Man from the U.S.S.R.

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Lectures on Russian Literature

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