The "listen" links are to sound files in the AIFF format, varying in size from 30-200K. First lines are read by Wilson Hutton. Also available are excerpts from Nabokov's readings at Harvard, recorded in 1946, 1952, and 1964. Many of Nabokov's novels have been published by Penguin UK in its Penguin Classics series. Visit the Penguin Classics website for more information. Novels:Mary (1926, 1970) [ listen | read | details ]King, Queen, Knave (1928, 1968) [ listen | read | details ] The Defense (1930, 1964) [ listen | read | details ] Glory (1932, 1971) [ listen | read | details ] Laughter in the Dark (1933, 1960) [ listen | read | details ] Despair (1934, 1937; revised 1966) [ listen | read | details ] The Gift (1937-38, 1963) [ listen | read | details ] Invitation to a Beheading (1938, 1959) [ listen | read | details ] The Eye (1938, 1965) [ listen | read | details ] The Enchanter (1939, 1986) [ listen | read | details ] The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) [ listen | read | details ] "Ultima Thule" (Solus Rex, 1942) [ read | details ] Bend Sinister (1947) [ listen | read | details ] Lolita (1955) [ listen | read | details ] Pnin (1957) [ listen | read | details ] Pale Fire (1962) [ listen | read | details ] Ada (1969) [ listen | read | details ] Transparent Things (1972) [ listen | read | details ] Look at the Harlequins! (1974) [ listen | read | details ] The Original of Laura [ details ] Autobiography
Short Story Collections
Nine Stories, 1947 Vesna v Fial'te, i Drugie Rasskazy, 1956 Nabokov's Dozen: A Collection of Thirteen Stories, 1958 (published in paperback as Spring in Fialta, 1959) Nabokov's Quartet, 1966 A Russian Beauty and Other Stories, 1973 Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stroies, 1975 Details of a Sunset and Other Stories, 1976 Poetry
Two Paths, 1918 (with Andrei Balashov; privately printed) Gorny Put', 1923 Grozd', 1923 Stikhotvoreniia, 1920-1951, 1952 Poems, 1959 Poems and Problems, 1970 Stikhi, 1979 Plays
"Agasfer," 1923 (poetic accompaniment to a symphony) "Smert'," 1923 "Dedushka," 1923 "Polius," 1924 "Tragediia gospodina Morna," 1925 "Chelovek iz SSSR," 1927 "Sobytie," 1938 "Izobretenie Val'sa," 1938 (The Waltz Invention, 1966) Screenplays
Nonfiction
Notes on Prosody: From the Commentary to His Translation of Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin," 1963 Strong Opinions, 1973 Letters from Terra: Vladimir Nabokov zu Ehren, 1977 The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: Correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson, 1940-1971, 1979 Lectures on Literature, 1980 Lectures on Ulysses: Facsimile of the Manuscript, 1980 Lectures on Russian Literature, 1980 Nabokov's Fifth Arc: Nabokov and Others on His Life Work, 1982 Lectures on Don Quixcote, 1983 Perepiska s sestroi, 1985 Translator into English
The Song of Igor's Campaign: An Epic from the Twelfth Century, 1960 Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse, 1964, rev. ed., 1975 Translator into Russian
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (translated as Anya v strane chudes) 1923
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