Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta'. Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?

Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose by the acclaimed author of "Lolita" and "Pale Fire", "Ada or Ardor" is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross continents, are continually parted and reunited, come to learn the strange truth about their singular relationship and, decades later, put their extraordinary experiences into words. This title is part of a major new beautiful hardback series of Vladimir Nabokov's work in Penguin Classics.

Nabokov's fourth novel, The Eye is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances. Nabokov's protagonist, Smurov, is a lovelorn, excruciatingly self-conscious Russian émigr&eacutee; living in prewar Berlin, who commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater indignities in the afterlife.

The annotated text of this modern classic. It assiduously illuminates the extravagant wordplay and the frequent literary allusions, parodies, and cross-references. Edited with a preface, introduction and notes by Alfred Appel, Jr.

The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gift for everyone.

“穿上懵懂女孩的旱冰鞋，滑入只有永不相交的危险道路的花园……”
★ 纳博科夫名作《洛丽塔》的雏形
★ 对疯人脑海中幻象的研究
★ 一则优雅而令人毛骨悚然的童话
《魔法师》是小说大师纳弗拉基米尔•纳博科夫著名作品《洛丽塔》的前身，按作者本人的说法，“魔法师”的书名预示了《洛丽塔》“着魔的猎人”的主旨。
在小说中，“魔法师”也是一个中年男子，他向寡妇求爱，为的是要接近她的女儿，最终用变戏法式的手段，把欲望变成了童话般的梦，从而创造了和《洛丽塔》截然不同的结局。
小说以第三人称叙述，其中的人物没有名字，故事发生的地点也有着异域风情，而《洛丽塔》则以第一人称详细说明了小说各要素的来龙去脉。即使撇开和《洛丽塔》的关系，《魔法师》仍然是部有趣的作品，值得一读。同书收录纳博科夫之子德米特里•纳博科夫导读文章。

A fastidiously shaped series of lectures based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the Spanish classic. 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; photographs.

Nikolai Gogol was the most idiosyncratic of the great Russian novelists of the 19th century and lived a tragically short life which was as chaotic as the lives of the characters he created. This biography begins with Gogol's death and ends with his birth, an inverted structure typical of both Gogol and Nabokov. The biographer proceeds to establish the relationship between Gogol and his novels, especially with regard to "nose-consciousness", a peculiar feature of Russian life and letters, which finds its apotheosis in Gogol's own life and prose. There are more expressions and proverbs concerning the nose in Russian than in any other language in the world. Nabokov's style in this biography is comic, but as always leads to serious issues—in this case, an appreciation of the distinctive "sense of the physical" inherent in Gogol's work. Nabokov describes how Gogol's life and literature mingled, and explains the structure and style of Gogol's prose in terms of the novelist's life.

In
, Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue.

The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordinary career. Each phase of his wandering life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at Cambridge in 1921, through his fame in the aftermath of the publication of Lolita to the final, fascinating interviews given shortly before his death in 1977.
Introduced and edited by his biographer Brian Boyd, this is an essential work for anyone who has been drawn into Nabokov's literary orbit. Here he is at his most inspirational, curious, misleading and caustic. The seriousness of his aesthetic credo, his passion for great writing and his mix of delight and dismay at his own, sudden global fame in the 1950s are all brilliantly delineated here.

Four plays and two essays on drama, written during Nabokov's emigre years before his writings in English earned him worldwide fame. Translated and with Introductions by Dmitri Nabokov.

A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy.
“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child": so Vladimir Nabokov famously wrote in the introduction to his volume of selected prose, Strong Opinions. Think, Write, Speak follows up where that volume left off, with a rich compilation of his uncollected prose and interviews, from a 1921 essay about Cambridge to two final interviews in 1977. The chronological order allows us to watch the Cambridge student and the fledgling Berlin reviewer and poet turn into the acclaimed Paris émigré novelist whose stature brought him to teach in America, where his international success exploded with Lolita and propelled him back to Europe. Whether his subject is Proust or Pushkin, the sport of boxing or the privileges of democracy, Nabokov’s supreme individuality, his keen wit, and his alertness to the details of life illuminate the page.

“在我所有的小说中，这部耸人听闻的作品是最出彩的。”
★ 冷眼洞察，搭建深不可测的婚姻迷宫
★ 残酷、谋杀、感伤和欲望交织的三角牌局
《王，后，杰克》是小说大师纳博科夫的早期杰作，首次出版于1928年。
从这部作品开始，纳博科夫开始在作品中频繁使用多种语言，玩文字游戏，并创造了众多超现实主义的人物性格和形象，这独特的“纳氏风格”也成为他长久立足于文坛的重要原因之一。
正如小说的名字所暗示的那样，纸牌这一意象贯穿了作品的始末。涉世未深而野心勃勃的年轻人弗朗兹来到柏林投靠富商舅舅德雷尔，而后在引诱下成为德雷尔妻子玛莎的情人，两人合谋要害死德雷尔。但当玛莎得知德雷尔即将发一笔横财时，她突然改变了主意，阴谋最终以出人意料的方式戛然而止……出轨、欺骗、谋杀等元素被巧妙地融入这场三角牌局，令人领略到人性的荒诞与阴暗，却又深陷文字大师营造的美妙细节中无法自拔。