Vladimir Nabokov - Collected Works (62 books)

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* Vladimir Nabokov - Collected Works (62 books)

VLADIMIR NABOKOV (1899–1977) was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899 to an aristocratic family, he fled after the Bolshevik Revolution, living in exile in Europe before eventually settling in the United States. This experience of displacement profoundly shaped his art: themes of memory, loss, exile, and the fragile persistence of the past echo across his fiction. Nabokov wrote major works in both Russian and English, achieving rare distinction in two literary cultures while cultivating a reputation for linguistic precision and formal ingenuity. His work is noted for its complex plots, clever word play, daring metaphors, classical allusion, and a prose style capable of both parody and intense lyricism.

His early Russian-language novels quickly established him as a leading émigré writer. MARY (1926), his first novel, already shows his gift for weaving longing and irony together. THE DEFENSE (1930) uses the game of chess to explore obsession and mental collapse, while THE GIFT (1938) reflects deeply on art, literary inheritance, and exile itself.

After emigrating to the United States in 1940, Nabokov began writing primarily in English and produced the works that would secure his international fame. Most notorious and widely read is LOLITA (1955), a controversial and darkly comic novel narrated by the self-deceiving Humbert Humbert, whose ornate prose contrasts sharply with the moral horror of his actions. PALE FIRE (1962), a novel consisting of a long poem and a commentary on it by a deranged literary pedant, extended and completed Nabokov's mastery of unorthodox structure. ADA OR ARDOR: A FAMILY CHRONICLE (1969), Nabokov's longest and most difficult novel, expanded into a lush, intricate chronicle of love and memory set in an alternate world.

Nabokov’s short fiction, much of it written between the 1920s and 1950s, reveals a more concentrated brilliance. The sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy gathered in his COLLECTED STORIES (2010) display Nabokov's astonishing range of technical and formal inventiveness: the dazzling sleight of hand, fanciful fairy tales, ingenious puzzles, enchanting vignettes and haunting melancholic narratives full of disturbing ambiguities.

His non-fiction is equally distinctive. His major critical works include an irreverent biography of NIKOLAI GOGOL (1944) and a monumental four-volume translation and commentary on Pushkin's novel-in-verse EUGENE ONEGIN (1964). In his memoir SPEAK, MEMORY (1951), he recreates his pre-revolutionary childhood and years of exile with extraordinary visual and emotional detail, turning autobiography into a carefully patterned work of art. His lectures on literature—delivered at American universities—reveal him as a passionate, idiosyncratic reader of writers like Austen, Dickens, and Kafka, more interested in artistic detail than in abstract theory.

Taken together, Nabokov’s principal works show a writer of remarkable breadth: a novelist of scandal and structure, a master of the short story, a devoted poet, and a memoirist who transformed memory into art. Across genres and languages, what unites him is a fierce devotion to style, a distrust of easy moral lessons, and an enduring belief that literature’s highest calling is to awaken a reader’s sense of wonder.


The following books are in ePUB and/or PDF format as noted:

== NOVELS ==

* Ada, or Ardor (Penguin, 2012) – ePUB
* Annotated Lolita: Revised & Updated [ed. Appel] (Penguin, 2014) – ePUB
* Bend Sinister (Penguin, 2016) – ePUB
* Despair (Penguin, 2012) – ePUB
* The Enchanter (Penguin, 2013) – ePUB
* The Eye (Penguin, 2010) – ePUB
* The Gift (Penguin, 2017) – ePUB
* Glory (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* Invitation to a Beheading (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* King, Queen, Knave (Penguin, 2012) – ePUB
* Laughter in the Dark (Penguin, 2017) – ePUB / PDF^
* Lolita (Vintage, 2025) – ePUB
* Look at the Harlequins (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* The Luzhin Defense (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* Mary (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951 [ed. Boyd] (Library of America, 1996) – PDF^
* Novels, 1955-1962 [ed. Boyd] (Library of America, 1996) – PDF^
* Novels, 1969-1974 [ed. Boyd] (Library of America, 1996) – PDF^
* The Original of Laura (Vintage, 2013) – ePUB
* Pale Fire (Berkley, 1982) – PDF
* Pale Fire (Penguin, 2016) – ePUB
* Pnin (Penguin, 2016) – ePUB
* The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (Penguin, 2012) – ePUB
* Terra Incognita (Penguin, 2011) – ePUB
* Transparent Things (Penguin, 2012) – ePUB

== SHORT FICTION ==

* Collected Stories (Penguin, 2016)
* Nabokov's Dozen (Avon, 1973) – PDF
* Nabokov's Dozen: Thirteen Stories (Penguin, 2017) – ePUB
* Spring in Fialta (Penguin, 2012) – ePUB
* Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB

== POETRY ==

* Collected Poems [ed. Karshan] (Penguin, 2012) – ePUB
* Selected Poems [ed. Karshan] (Knopf, 2012) – ePUB

== DRAMA ==

* Lolita: A Screenplay (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* The Man from the U.S.S.R. and Other Plays (HMH, 2012) – ePUB
* The Tragedy of Mister Morn (Knopf, 2013) – ePUB
* The Waltz Invention: A Play in Three Acts (Phaedra, 1966) – PDF

== AUTOBIOGRAPHY & INTERVIEWS ==

* Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov [ed. Golla] (Mississippi, 2017) – ePUB
* Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Penguin, 2012) – ePUB

== NON-FICTION ==

* Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time [ed. Barabtarlo] (Princeton, 2017) – ePUB
* Lectures on Don Quixote [ed. Bowers] (HBJ, 1983) – ePUB + PDF
* Lectures on Literature [ed. Bowers] (HBJ, 1980) – ePUB + PDF
* Lectures on Russian Literature [ed. Bowers] (HBJ, 1981) – ePUB + PDF
* Nabokov's Butterflies [ed. Boyd & Pyle] (Beacon, 2000) – PDF
* Nikolai Gogol (Penguin, 2011 / New Directions, 2017) – ePUB
* Strong Opinions (Vintage, 2011) – ePUB
* Think, Write, Speak [ed. Boyd & Tolstoy] (Knopf, 2019) – ePUB

== LETTERS ==

* Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya [ed. Karlinksy] (California, 2001) – PDF
* Letters to Véra [ed. Voronina & Boyd] (Penguin, 2016) – ePUB
* Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971 [ed. Karlinsky] (Harper & Row, 1979) – PDF^
* Selected Letters, 1940-1977 [ed. Nabokov & Bruccoli] (HBJ, 1989) – ePUB + PDF

== TRANSLATIONS ==

* A Hero of Our Time [M. Lermontov] (Ardis, 2002) – ePUB
* Eugene Onegin, Vol. 1: Introduction and Translation (Princeton, 2018) – ePUB
* Eugene Onegin, Vol. 2: Commentary and Index (Princeton, 2018) – ePUB

* Eugene Onegin, Vol. I : Introduction and Translation (Pantheon, 1964) – PDF
* Eugene Onegin, Vol. II: Commentary, Part 1 (Pantheon, 1964) – PDF
* Eugene Onegin, Vol. III: Commentary, Part 2 (Pantheon, 1964) – PDF
* Eugene Onegin, Vol. IV: Index and Reproduction of 1837 Edition (Pantheon, 1964) – PDF
* The Song of Igor's Campaign (Ardis, 2003) – ePUB
* Three Russian Poets: Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev (New Directions, 1944) – PDF
* Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry [ed. Boyd & Shvabrin] (Harcourt, 2008) – PDF

== MISCELLANEOUS ==

* Fine Lines: Nabokov's Scientific Art [ed. Blackwell] (Yale, 2016) – PDF
* Nabokov's Congeries [ed. Stegner] (Viking, 1968) – PDF, aka "The Portable Nabokov"

== BIOGRAPHICAL ==

* Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years [Brian Boyd] (Princeton, 1991) – PDF
* Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years [Brian Boyd] (Princeton, 1990) – PDF

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