Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich

Charles Kinbote tells the story of his life while analyzing a poem by his deceased friend, John Shade.

A Russian-born professor struggles to cope with American idioms and idiosyncrasies at a university in upstate New York.

Hugh Person, a young publisher sent to interview Mr. R. in Switzerland, falls in love with Armande, whom he steals from a Scandinavian and brings back to New York, and eight years later, after a murder and period of insanity, Hugh returns to Switzerland to figure out his past.

John Shade, a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A., writes a 999-line poem in the last twenty days of his life which is then acquired and annotated by his crazy neighbor, Charles Kinbote.

Contains sixty-five short stories by Vladimir Nabokov originally written from the early 1920s through the mid-1950s.

Presents Vladimir Nabokov's novel about a thirty-seven-year-old literary scholar who becomes obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl; and provides explanatory notes and an extensive introduction.

Includes lectures on selected works of Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Gorki.

Humbert Humbert's obsession for Dolores Haze leads him to marry her mother just so he can be closer to her, but soon his love for Dolores drives him to madness.