List of works by Vladimir Nabokov

List of works by Vladimir Nabokov

This is a complete list of works by writer Vladimir Nabokov.

Fiction

Novels and novellas

Novels and novellas written in Russian

* (1926) "Mashen'ka" (Машенька); English translation: "Mary" (1970)
* (1928) "Korol' Dama Valet" (Король, дама, валет); English translation: "King, Queen, Knave" (1968)
* (1930) "Zashchita Luzhina" (Защита Лужина); English translation: "The Luzhin Defense" or "The Defense" (1964) (also adapted to film, "The Luzhin Defence", in 2001)
* (1930) "Sogliadatai" (Соглядатай (Eavesdropper)), novella; first publication as a book 1938; English translation: "The Eye" (1965)
* (1932) "Podvig" (Подвиг (Deed)); English translation: "Glory" (1971)
* (1933) "Kamera Obskura" (Камера Обскура); English translations: "Camera Obscura" (1936), "Laughter in the Dark" (1938)
* (1934) "Otchayanie" (Отчаяние); English translation: "Despair" (1937, 1966)
* (1936) "Priglasheniye na kazn"' (Приглашение на казнь (Invitation to an execution)); English translation: "Invitation to a Beheading" (1959)
* (1938) "Dar" (Дар); English translation: "The Gift" (1963)
* (Unpublished novella, written in 1939) "Volshebnik" (Волшебник); English translation: "The Enchanter" (1985)

Novels written in English

* (1941) "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight"
* (1947) "Bend Sinister"
* (1955) "Lolita", self-translated into Russian, (1965)
* (1957) "Pnin"
* (1962) "Pale Fire"
* (1969) ""
* (1972) "Transparent Things"
* (1974) "Look at the Harlequins!"
* (1977) "The Original of Laura" (Unfinished/Unpublished) [fr Lila Azam Zanganeh, « [http://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2008/05/09/le-dernier-nabokov_1042984_3260.html Le dernier Nabokov] », "Le Monde", #19684, nobr|May 10, 2008, nobr|p. 16.]

Short story collections

* (1930) "Vozvrashchenie Chorba" ("The Return of Chorb"). Fifteen short stories and twenty-four poems, in Russian, by "V. Sirin".
* (1938) "Sogliadatai" ("The Eye"). Thirteen short stories, in Russian, by "V. Sirin".
* (1947) "Nine Stories"
* (1956) "Vesna v Fial'te i drugie rasskazy" ("Spring in Fialta and other stories")
* (1958) "" (Also reprinted as "Spring in Fialta" and "First Love and Other Stories".)
* (1966) "Nabokov's Quartet"
* (1968) "Nabokov's Congeries"; reprinted as "The Portable Nabokov" (1971)
* (1973) "A Russian Beauty and Other Stories"
* (1975) "Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories"
* (1976) "Details of a Sunset and Other Stories"
* (1995) "The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov" (alternative title "The Collected Stories") -- complete collection of all short stories
* (2005) "Cloud, Castle, Lake"

Uncollected short story

* (2008) "Natasha", The New Yorker, June 9 & 16.

Drama

* (1938) "Izobretenie Val'sa" ("The Waltz Invention"); English translation "The Waltz Invention: A Play in Three Acts" (1966)
* (1974) "" (Despite the credits given in the earlier film version, this was not used.)
* (1984) "The Man from the USSR and Other Plays"

Poetry

* (1916) "Stikhi" ("Poems"). Sixty-eight poems in Russian.
* (1918) "Al'manakh: Dva Puti" (An Almanac: Two Paths"). Twelve poems by Nabokov and eight by Andrei Balashov, in Russian.
* (1922) "Grozd" ("The Cluster"). Thirty-six poems in Russian, by "V. Sirin".
* (1923) "Gornii Put"' ("The Empyrean Path"). One hundred and twenty-eight poems in Russian, by "Vl. Sirin".
* (1929) "Vozvrashchenie Chorba" ("The Return of Chorb"). Fifteen short stories and twenty-four poems, in Russian, by "V. Sirin".
* (1952) "Stikhotvoreniia 1929–1951" ("Poems 1929–1951") Fifteen poems in Russian.
* (1959) "Poems". The contents were later incorporated within "Poems and Problems".
* (1969) "Poems and Problems" (a collection of poetry and chess problems) ISBN 0-07-045724-7
* (1979) "Stikhi" ("Poems"). Two hundred and twenty-two poems in Russian.

Translations

From French into Russian

* (1922) "Nikolka Persik" Translation of Romain Rolland's novel "Colas Breugnon".

From English into Russian

* (1923) "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (as "Аня в стране чудес" - "Anya in Wonderland")

From Russian into English

* (1945) "Three Russian Poets: Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov, and Tyutchev". Expanded British edition: "Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev: Poems" (1947)
* (1958) "A Hero of Our Time", by Mikhail Lermontov. (Collaboration with his son Dmitri.)
* (1960) "The Song of Igor's Campaign: An Epic of the Twelfth Century"
* (1964) "Eugene Onegin", by Aleksandr Pushkin, in prose. Includes "Notes on Prosody". Revised edition (1975).

Nonfiction

Criticism

* (1944) "Nikolai Gogol"
* (1963) "Notes on Prosody" (Later appeared within "Eugene Onegin".)
* (1980) "Lectures on Literature"
* (1980) "Lectures on Ulysses". Facsimiles of Nabokov's notes.
* (1981) "Lectures on Russian Literature"
* (1983) "Lectures on Don Quixote"

Autobiographical and other

* (1951) "Conclusive Evidence: A Memoir" - first version of Nabokov's autobiography. (British edition titled "Speak, Memory: A Memoir")
* (1954) "Drugie Berega" (Другие берега, "Other Shores") - revised version of the autobiography
* (1967) " " - final revised and extended edition of "Conclusive Evidence". It includes information on his work as a lepidopterist.
* (1973) "Strong Opinions". Interviews, reviews, letters to editors.
* (1979) "The Nabokov–Wilson Letters" Letters between Nabokov and Edmund Wilson
* (1984) "Perepiska s Sestroi" (Переписка с Сестрой (Correspondence with the Sister)) Correspondence between Nabokov and Helene Sikorski; also includes some letters to his brother Kirill
* (1987) "Carrousel". Three long-forgotten short texts that had recently been rediscovered.
* (1989) "Selected Letters"
* (2001) "Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov–Wilson Letters, 1940–1971". A revised and augmented edition of "The Nabokov–Wilson Letters."

Lepidoptery

* (2000) "Nabokov's Butterflies", collected works on butterflies. ISBN 0-8070-8540-5

Collected Works

* Boyd, Brian, ed. "Vladimir Nabokov, Novels and Memoirs 1943-1951" (Library of America, 1996) ISBN 978-1-883011-18-5
* Boyd, Brian, ed. "Vladimir Nabokov, Novels 1955-1962" (Library of America, 1996) ISBN 978-1-883011-19-2
* Boyd, Brian, ed. "Vladimir Nabokov, Novels 1969-1974" (Library of America, 1996) ISBN 978-1-883011-20-8

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