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    Vladimir Nabokov is one of the most controversial and famous classic authors of all time. His work has been enjoyed by many all over the world and in three languages.

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Title of Work

Year Published

Other Information

Stikhi

1916

Collection of 68 poems (in Russian)

Romain Roland

1922

Translations from the French

Colas Bruegnon

1922

Translations from the French

Grozd'

1922

36 poems in Russian

Gornii put' (The Empyrean Path)

1923

128 poems in Russian

Skital'sy (The Wanderers)

1923

Play

Ania v strane chudes

1923

Translation into Russian of Lewis Carrol's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Rul' of Smert' (Death)

1923

Drama

Rul' of Dedushka (The Grandad)

1923

Drama

Rul' of Agasfer

1923

Monologue

Tragediia Gospodina Morna (The Tragedy of Mister Morn)

1924

Play

Polyus (The Pole)

1924

Verse drama in one act

"Draka"

1925

Story

"Britva" ("The Razor")

1926

Story

Mashen'ka

1926

First novel

Chelovek iz SSSR (The Man from the USSR)

1926

Play

Korol', dama, valet

1928

Novel

Vozvrashchenie Chorba (The Return of Chorb)

1929

15 stories and 24 poems in Russian

Zashchita Luzhina

1929

Novel

Podvig

1932

Novel

Kamera obskura

1933

Novel

Otchaianie

1936

Novel

Sobytia (The Event)

1938

Play

Izobretenie Wal'sa (The Waltz Invention)

1938

Play

Priglashenie na kazn'

1938

Novel

Sogliadatai

1938

Novel

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

1941

First American novel

Nikolai Gogol

1944

Novel

Three Russian Poets

1944

Translations of Pushkin, Lermontov, and Tiutchev

Bend Sinister

1947

Novel

Nine Stories

1947

Russian and English

Conclusive Evidence

1951

Novel

Lolita

1955

Most famous novel

Vesna v Fial’te

1956

Fourteen stories in Russian

Pnin

1957

Novel

Nabokov’s Dozen

1958

Stories

Poems

1959

Poetry

The Song of Igor’s Campaign

1960

Translation

Pale Fire

1962

Novel

Speak, Memory

1967

Memoirs

Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

1969

Novel

Poems and Problems

1971

39 poems in Russian and English, 14 poems in English, 18 chess problems

Transparent Things

1972

Novel

A Russian Beauty and Other Stories

1973

13 stories, some translated from the Russian, some written directly in English

Look at the Harlequins

1974

Novel

Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories

1975

14 stories, some from the Russian, some written in English

Details of a Sunset and Other Stories

1976

13 stories, translated from the Russian

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