{"title":"Library Of America Vladimir Nabokov Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore the Library of America's definitive Vladimir Nabokov editions. Discover the dazzling prose and intricate narratives of this literary giant, showcasing his genius in exquisite detail. Perfect for lovers of elegant writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"vladimir-nabokov-novels-and-memoirs-1941-1951-loa-87-book-vladimir-nabokov-9781883011185","title":"Vladimir Nabokov: Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951 (LOA #87)","description":"After a brilliant literary career writing in Russian, Vladimir Nabokov emigrated to the United States in 1940 and went on to an even more brilliant one in English. Between 1939 and 1974 he wrote the autobiography and eight novels now collected by The Library of America in an authoritative three-volume set, earning a place as one of the greatest writers of America, his beloved adopted home. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the first novel Nabokov wrote in English, is a tantalizing literary mystery in which a writer's half brother searches to unravel the enigma of the life of the famous author of Albinos in Black, The Back of the Moon, and The Doubtful Asphodel. Bend Sinister (1947), Nabokov's most explicitly political novel, is the haunting, dreamlike story of Adam Krug, a quiet philosophy professor caught up in the bureaucratic bungling of a totalitarian police state. Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (1951; revised 1966), Nabokov's dazzling memoir of his childhood in imperial Russia and exile in Europe, is central to an understanding of his art. The texts of this volume incorporate Nabokov's penciled corrections in his own copies of his works and correct long-standing errors. They are the most authoritative versions available and have been prepared with the assistance of Dmitri Nabokov, the novelist's son, and Brian Boyd, Nabokov's award-winning biographer, who has also contributed notes and a detailed chronology of the author's life based on new research.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50033731272977,"sku":"CIN1883011183G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51747904749841,"sku":"GOR008122267","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1883011183.jpg?v=1750867121"},{"product_id":"vladimir-nabokov-novels-1955-1962-loa-88-book-vladimir-nabokov-9781883011192","title":"Vladimir Nabokov: Novels 1955-1962 (LOA #88)","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis Library of America volume is the second of three volumes presenting the most authoritative versions of the English works of the brilliant Russian émigré, Vladimir Nabokov.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e (1955), Nabokov's single most famous work, is one of the most controversial and widely read books of its time. Funny, satiric, poignant, filled with allusions to earlier American writers, it is the \"confession\" of a middle-aged, sophisticated European émigré's passionate obsession with a twelve-year-old American \"nymphet,\" and the story of their wanderings across a late 1940s America of highways and motels. (Nabokov's film adaptation of \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e, as originally written for director Stanley Kubrick, is also included.)\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Pnin\u003c\/i\u003e (1957) is a comic masterpiece about a gentle, bald Russian émigré professor in an American college town who is never quite able to master its language, its politics, or its train schedule. Nabokov's years as a teacher provided rich background for this satirical picture of academic life, with an unforgettable figure at its center: \"It was the world that was absent-minded and it was Pnin whose business it was to set it straight. His life was a constant war with insensate objects that fell apart, or attacked him, or refused to function, or viciously got themselves lost as soon as they entered the sphere of his existence.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePale Fire\u003c\/i\u003e (1962) is a tour de force in the form of an ostensibly autobiographical poem by a recently deceased American poet and a critical commentary by an academic who is something other than what he seems. Its unique structure, pitting artist against seemingly worshipful critic, sets the stage for some of Nabokov's most intricate games of deception and concealment.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The texts of this volume incorporate Nabokov's penciled corrections in his own copies of his works which correct long-standing errors, and have been prepared with the assistance of Dmitri Nabokov, the novelist's son.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA \u003c\/b\u003eis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50159929000209,"sku":"CIN1883011191A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50272357613841,"sku":"GOR006929943","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51057242308881,"sku":"NIN9781883011192","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52107477254417,"sku":"CIN1883011191G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53109902278929,"sku":"CIN1883011191VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1883011191.jpg?v=1751218247"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/library-of-america-vladimir-nabokov-edition-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}