This is a list of works by writer Vladimir Nabokov.
Fiction
Novels and novellas
Novels and novellas written in Russian
- (1926) Mashen'ka (ÃÂðÃÂõýÃÂúð); English translation: Mary (1970)
- (1928) Korol', dama, valet (ÃÂþÃÂþûÃÂ, ôðüð, òðûõÃÂ); English translation: King, Queen, Knave (1968)
- (1930) Zashchita Luzhina (ÃÂðÃÂøÃÂð ÃÂÃÂöøýð); English translation: The Luzhin Defense or The Defense (1964) (also adapted to film, The Luzhin Defence, in 2000)
- (1930) Sogliadatay (áþóûÃÂôðÃÂðù (The Voyeur)), novella; first publication as a book 1938; English translation: The Eye (1965)
- (1932) Podvig (ÃÂþôòøó (Heroic Deed)); English translation: Glory (1971)
- (1933) Kamera obskura (ÃÂðüõÃÂð þñÃÂúÃÂÃÂð); English translations: Camera Obscura (1936), Laughter in the Dark (1938)
- (1934) Otchayanie (ÃÂÃÂÃÂðÃÂýøõ); English translation: Despair (1937, 1965)
- (1936) Priglashenie na kazn (ÃÂÃÂøóûðÃÂõýøõ ýð úð÷ýà(Invitation to an execution)); English translation: Invitation to a Beheading (1959)
- (1938) Dar (ÃÂðÃÂ); English translation: The Gift (1963)
- (Unpublished novella, written in 1939) Volshebnik (ÃÂþûÃÂõñýøú); English translation: The Enchanter (1985)
Novels written in English
Short story collections
Short stories
- (c. 1921) "". The New Yorker, June 9 & 16, 2008 (incorporated into the 17th and later printings of the paperback edition of The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov)
- (1923-01-07) "". The New Yorker, December 26, 2005 (incorporated into the 15th and later printings of the paperback edition of The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov)
- (1926, Summer) "The Man Stopped". Harper's Magazine, March 1, 2015
- (1948) "Colette". The New Yorker, July 31, 1948 This story eventually found its way into NabokovâÂÂs autobiography, Speak, Memory.
- (1955) "Pnin gives a party". The New Yorker, November 12, 1955
Drama
- (1924) The Tragedy of Mister Morn (2012): English translation of a Russian-language play written 1923–24, publicly read 1924, published in a journal 1997, independently published 2008
- (1938) Izobretenie val'sa (The Waltz Invention); English translation The Waltz Invention: A Play in Three Acts (1966)
- (1974) ' (despite the credits given in the earlier film version, this was not used)
- (1984) The Man from the USSR and Other Plays
Poetry
- (1916) Stikhi ("Poems"). Sixty-eight poems in Russian.
- (1918) Al'manakh: Dva puti (An Almanac: Two Paths"). Twelve poems by Nabokov and eight by Andrei Balashov, in Russian.
- (1922) Grozd ("The Cluster"). Thirty-six poems in Russian, by "V. Sirin".
- (1923) Gornii put ("The Empyrean Path"). One hundred and twenty-eight poems in Russian, by "Vl. Sirin".
- (1929) Vozvrashchenie Chorba ("The Return of Chorb"). Fifteen short stories and twenty-four poems, in Russian, by "V. Sirin".
- (1952) Stikhotvoreniia 1929âÂÂ1951 ("Poems 1929âÂÂ1951") Fifteen poems in Russian.
- (1959) Poems. The contents were later incorporated within Poems and Problems.
- (1969) Poems and Problems (a collection of poetry and chess problems). The contents were later incorporated within Selected Poems.
- (1979) Stikhi ("Poems"). Two hundred and twenty-two poems in Russian.
- (2012) Selected Poems
Translations
From French into Russian
From English into Russian
From Russian into English
- (1944) Three Russian Poets: Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov, and Tyutchev. Expanded British edition: Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev: Poems (1947).
- (1958) A Hero of Our Time, by Mikhail Lermontov. Collaboration with his son Dmitri.
- (1960) The Song of Igor's Campaign: An Epic of the Twelfth Century
- (1964) Eugene Onegin, by Aleksandr Pushkin, in prose. Includes "Notes on Prosody". Revised edition (1975).
- (2008) Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry, edited by Brian Boyd and Stanislav Shvabrin. Includes materials previously published in Three Russian Poets (1945) and Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev (1947) as well as unpublished materials.
Nonfiction
Criticism
Autobiographical and other
- (1949) "Curtain-Raiser". The New Yorker 24/45 (1 January 1949): 18âÂÂ21.
- (1951) Conclusive Evidence: A Memoir. First version of Nabokov's autobiography. (British edition titled Speak, Memory: A Memoir.)
- (1954) Drugie berega (ÃÂÃÂÃÂóøõ ñõÃÂõóð, "Other Shores"). Revised version of the autobiography.
- (1967) Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited. Final revised and extended edition of Conclusive Evidence. It includes information on his work as a lepidopterist.
- (1973) Strong Opinions. Interviews, reviews, letters to editors.
- (1979) The NabokovâÂÂWilson Letters. Letters between Nabokov and Edmund Wilson.
- (1984) Perepiska s sestroi (ÃÂõÃÂõÿøÃÂúð àÃÂõÃÂÃÂÃÂþù (Correspondence with the Sister)). Correspondence between Nabokov and Helene Sikorski; also includes some letters to his brother Kirill.
- (1987) Carrousel. Three long-forgotten short texts that had recently been rediscovered.
- (1989) Selected Letters
- (2001) Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The NabokovâÂÂWilson Letters, 1940âÂÂ1971. A revised and augmented edition of The NabokovâÂÂWilson Letters.
- (2014) Letters to Véra. Nabokov's letters to Véra Slonim, beginning in 1921 and extending through their marriage.
- (2017) Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov. Collection of interviews.
- (2019) Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor. Previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews.
Lepidopteral
Collected works
- Boyd, Brian, ed. Vladimir Nabokov, Novels and Memoirs 1941âÂÂ1951 (Library of America, 1996)
- Boyd, Brian, ed. Vladimir Nabokov, Novels 1955âÂÂ1962 (Library of America, 1996)
- Boyd, Brian, ed. Vladimir Nabokov, Novels 1969âÂÂ1974 (Library of America, 1996)
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