Vladimir Nabokov

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.

Nabokov said of his chess-playing genius Luzhin, that despite his coarseness and grubby plainness, he is a lovable creation. Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood, rising to the rank of internati...

"Oryginał Laury" Vladimira Nabokova, to powieść, która istnieje tylko we fragmentach jedna z najpilniej strzeżonych tajemnic literatury, niedokończone arcydzieło wielkiego pisarza, które przez ponad t...

The famous American poet John Shade was murdered in 1959. This book contains his last poem, Pale Fire, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known...

In the early third century AD the Roman Empire was a force to be reckoned with, controlling vast territories and wielding enormous political power from Scotland to the Sahara. 400 years later this mig...

The masterwork that was nearly destroyed, from one of the greatest authorsof the twentieth century. Dr Philip Wild, a man of brilliance, wit, fortuneand tremendous bulk, is used to suffering humiliati...

A man at his desk is interrupted by the appearance of a woodland elf in his room; the piano maestro Bachmann ends his career; a barber shaves the face of a man who once tortured him; a shy dreamer mak...

?Fikcja stwarza mi tak rzadko okazję do dzielenia się własnym zdaniem, że cieszą mnie te nagłe nawałnice pytań?, wyznaje Vladimir Nabokov (1899?1977), rosyjsko-amerykański klasyk literatury XX wieku, ...