Brian Boyd's Introduction to Speak, Memory

Nabokov's Butterflies with introduction by Brian Boyd from The Atlantic

Vladimir Nabokov. Inspiration (written on November 20, 1972, for Saturday Review)

Vladimir Nabokov. Rowe's symbols

Vladimir Nabokov. Articles about butterflies

Butterflies: Drawn by Nabokov

'Lords and Owners': Nabokov's Sequestered Imagination
by William Monroe

Ember, Translator of Hamlet by Christine Raguet-Bouvart translated from the French by Jeff Edmunds

A Bibliography of Nabokov Criticism by Dieter E. Zimmer

Scraping the Barrel LV's Web Page of Unpublished Vladimir Nabokov

Nabokov Under Glass. An excellent exhibit presented by the New York Public Library.

Ardis: Nabokov Photo Exhibit. Some wonderful and seldom seen photographs in here. Ardis Books, by the way, has published tons of neat stuff: exhaustive Nabokov scholarship plus Russian literature at large, not to mention some of the very best English translations of Russian writers.

A Free online course from Columbia University: The Life and Works of Vladimir Nabokov From: The New York Public Library | Taught By: Sarah Funke , Rodney Phillips

Speak, Memory

Vladimir Nabokov - Drugie Berega. Full Text in Russian

O Window in the Dark! The Early Career of Vladimir Nabokov

Interviews

01. Anonymous [1962]
02. BBC Television [1962]
03. Playboy [1964]
04. Life [1964]
05. TV-13 NY [1965]
06. Wisconsin Studies [1967]
07. The Paris Review [1967]
08. The New York Times Book Review [1968]
09. BBC-2 [1968]
10. Time [1969]
11. The New York Times [1969]
12. The Sunday Times [1969]
13. BBC-2 [1969]
14. Vogue [1969]
15. Novel [1970]
16. The New York Times [1971]
17. The New York Times Book Review [1972]
18. Swiss Broadcast [1972?]
19. Bayerischer Rundfunk [1971-72]
20. Anonymous
21. Vogue [1972]
22. Anonymous [1972]

Invitation to a Beheading

Vladimir Nabokov - Priglashenie na kazn'. Full Text in Russian

Vladimir Nabokov - Priglashenie na kazn'. Full text in Russian, with an interactive English dictionary. Just point your mouse to a word that you don't know and click on it, an English translation will appear below.

The Informing of the Soul (Invitation to a Beheading) by Gennady Barabtarlo

Early Nabokov BY CHARLES A. MOSER

POEM, PROBLEM, PRANK by Alexander ZHOLKOVSKY

Writing as a Tool to Enlightenment in Invitation to a Beheading By Courtney Jordan

Artistic World of Vladimir Nabokov. Poetics of the novel "Invitation to a Beheading " Lecture in Russian, Real Player Required

The Spider Motif in Invitation to a Beheading

The Gift

Vladimir Nabokov - Dar. Full text in Russian

Vladimir Nabokov - Dar. Full text in Russian, with an interactive English dictionary. Just point your mouse to a word that you don't know and click on it, an English translation will appear below.

LOFTY SICKNESS OF SYNESTHESIA OR CREATIVE IMPOTENCE OF IT'S INTERPRETERS? by B.M.Galeyev

Imagining A Writer (The 5 motif in the Gift)

Poems and problems of changing languages. Problems of self-translation. Written analysis of a major Nabokov poem due.

Vladimir Nabokov. An Evening of Russian Poetry

Nabokov Lectures on Russian Poetry 11 min. Real Player Required. Free Registration with the NY Times Required

The Song of Igor's Campaign, Igor son of Svyatoslav and grandson of Oleg Translated by Vladimir Nabokov

Silentium. Fyodor Tyutchev (translated by Vladimir Nabokov)

Nabokov Reads "Silentium" (by Fedor Tiutchev, 1946) [112K] [28.8K] Real Player Required

Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. translated into Russian by Vladimir Nabokov. Complete Russian Text

Vladimir Nabokov - Complete collection of Russian Petry in Russian

Vladimir Nabokov - Russian Poetry in Russian (HTML version)

Vladimir Nabokov. On translating "Eugene Onegin". Bilingual (English by Mikhail Blumin)

The Art of Translation by Vladimir Nabokov from the New Republic

Emergence of Meaning and Cross-Cultural Translation in Vladimir Nabokov’s Translation and Commentary of Alexander Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin By Anna Dergatcheva PDF Format Acrobat Reader Required

Vladmir Nabokov: The Russian Years by John Simon

Nabokov in America by Donald Lyons

Pnin

Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin. Full text in Russian. Trans. by Sergei Il'in

Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin. Full text in Russian. Trans. by B. Nosik

A Resolved Discord (Pnin) by Gennady Barabtarlo

Lolita. week 11 rough draft of the 2nd paper is due

Nabokov Reads A Poem from Lolita 4 min.

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita, Full text in Russian Translated by Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita. Full text in Russian, with an interactive English dictionary. Just point your mouse to a word that you don't know and click on it, an English translation will appear below.

Lolita: A Screenplay (1962) by Stanley Kubrick & Vladimir Nabokov Published: 1974. Zip File

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. A review by Charles Rolo [prev. in:] The Atlantic Monthly; September, 1958; Volume 202, No. 3; page 78. Zip File

"Even Homais Nods": Nabokov's Fallibility, or, How to Revise Lolita
by Brian Boyd

The Poerotic Novel: Nabokov's Lolita and Ada: Chapter 5 of Maurice Couturier's book, Roman et censure, ou la mauvaise foi d'Eros.

Lolita Concordance

'Lolita': Complex, often tricky and 'a hard sell' by Jeff Edmunds

Humbert's Road Trip

The Inspiration for Lolita

Pale Fire. week 13 - 2nd paper is due

First Chapter: 'Nabokov's Pale Fire' (Eng)

Vladimir Nabokov - Blednoe Plamia. Full Text in Russian. Trans. by Sergei Il'in and Alexandra Glebovskaia

Nabokov Reads from Pale Fire 20 min, Real Player Required, Free Registration with the NY Times Required

Nabokov Reads from Pale Fire 13 min, Real Player Required, Free Registration with the NY Times Required

Shade and Shape in Pale Fire by Brian Boyd

"Ghost Story," by Daniel Zalewski: a review of Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery, by Brian Boyd.

A and Z of Zembla

Genius and Plausibility: Suspension of Disbelief in Pale Fire
by J. Morris

'Which is to be master' in Pale Fire
by Maurice Couturier

A Fictional Vehicle for Literary Debate: On John Burt Foster's Reading of Nabokov's Pale Fire by Jaimie Crawford

A Note on Pale Fire and Khodasevich's "Ballada"
by Kevin Frazier

Pale Fire Handout

Silvery Light: The Real Life of Vladimir Nabokov by Charles Kinbote