Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world\"s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Med...

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....

Thirteen strangely wrought, ingeniously crafted stories make up Nabokov\"s baker\"s dozen. In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, with nowhere to escape to. Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lurk in all the corners....

When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist, Humbert Humbert, and his two principal interlocutors, the pre-pubescent Lolita, and the magnificently weird playwright, Mr Clare Quilty....

Vladimir Nabokov\"s brilliant, endlessly inventive imagination and pyrotechnical literary genius continue to astound in the stories The Return of Chorb, The Aurelian, Russian Spoken Here, Cloud, Castle, Lake, Mademoiselle O., A Forgotten Poet, and......

Three great stories - The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance - the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the real pain and horror that would accompany space travel....

In Pale Fire 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,......

Nabokov begins his Strong Opinions I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. In the interviews collected here - covering everything from his own burgeoning literary celebrity to Kubrick\"s Lolita to......

Vladimir Nabokov, aunque fundamentalmente conocido por su obra maestra, la novela Lolita (1955), fue tambien un prolifico autor de narrativa breve. La produccion en este ambito se extiende a lo largo de mas de cuarenta anos de trayectoria literaria....

An aspiring young Berlin actress turns the tables on her lustful middle-aged admirer, in Nabokov\"s deadpan, deliciously cruel story of hopeless infatuation and horribly inventive revenge....

No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov\"s. Vera Slonim shared his delight at the enchantment of life\"s trifles and literature\"s treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humour of any woman he had met....

\\\"Dopo trentasei anni, rileggo Lolita di Vladimir Nabokov... Trentasei anni sono moltissimi per un libro. Ma Lolita ha, come allora, un\"abbagliante grandezza. Che respiro. Che forza romanzesca. Che potere verbale. Che scintillante alterigia.......

A rich evocation of Nabokov\'s life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including LOLITA, PNIN, DESPAIR, THE GIFT and others....

Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twenty-two-year-old Russian émigré of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him. Convinced that his life is about to be wasted and hoping to impress his......

No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov\"s. Vera Slonim shared his delight at the enchantment of life\"s trifles and literature\"s treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest......