It was first published in The Hudson Review and Encounter in 1959, later in Nabokov's Quartet ( 1966 ), Nabokov's Congeries ( 1968 ; reprinted as The Portable Nabokov, 1971 ), Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories ( 1975 ), and The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov ( 1995 ).

Nabokov's Congeries was a collection of work by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1968 and reprinted in 1971 as The Portable Nabokov.

The text of " The Assistant Producer " contained in Nabokov's Congeries omits the story's final two paragraphs, which had apparently been inadvertently dropped from all English-language editions of the story subsequent to the first.

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* " First Love ", a short story by Vladimir Nabokov appearing in Nabokov's Congeries and as " Colette " in Speak, Memory

* Nabokov's Dozen ( 1958 ), a collection of 13 short stories by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov previously published in American magazines

The following dates mostly come from Nabokov's study of the photographs of Pushkin's drafts that were available at the time, as well as other people's work on the subject.

* In Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin, the title character asks for Martin Eden in a bookstore, describing it as " a celebrated work by the celebrated American writer Jack London ", but nobody has heard of it, and they only have a copy of The Son of the Wolf.

In April 2008, Nabokov's son Dmitri Nabokov announced plans to publish the work, in what BBC2 late night news programme Newsnight later said was " likely to be the literary event of 2009.

" Upon publication, however, critical response was strongly negative, with commenters lambasting the quality of the writing and admonishing Nabokov's executor for publishing the work in this state.

The journalist Ron Rosenbaum, who corresponded with Dmitri Nabokov, said that the son had been inclined toward destroying the manuscript, swayed by criticism of his father, such as allegations of plagiarism that arose from the discovery of a 1916 German short story, " Lolita " with some similarities to Nabokov's work, or critics who had interpreted Nabokov's work as suggesting that Nabokov was sexually abused.

However, a reviewer in New York Magazine was glad to have the book ; he enjoyed reading it and enjoyed the opportunity to see Nabokov's work " rough ".

" The inside story of Nabokov's last work ".

Its form is highly reminiscent of Nabokov's Pale Fire in that it consists almost entirely of a set of endnotes for a larger ( non-existent ) biographical work.

* The character of Ada and her home Ardis Hall in the Ilium cycle are inspired by Vladimir Nabokov's novel Ada or Ardor, which was Nabokov's foray into the science fiction genre and alternate history.

* September 15 – Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in Paris by Olympia Press.

* Two song settings of Vladimir Nabokov's poem " Provence " in Russian and English versions by composers Ivan Barbotin and James DeMars on the 2011 contemporary classical album Troika.

The notes on the text, written by Vivian Darkbloom ( Nabokov's alter ego ), state that " this town exists, or, rather, existed, for it has been renamed, I believe, after the appearance of the notorious novel ," referring, of course, to Nabokov's own novel Lolita.

John Bayley has described Nabokov's commentary as '" by far the most erudite as well as the most fascinating commentary in English on Pushkin's poem " and the commentary as being " as scrupulously accurate, in terms of grammar, sense and phrasing, as it is idiosyncratic and Nabokovian in its vocabulary ".

James E. Falen ( the professor of Russian at the University of Tennessee ) published a translation in 1995 which was also influenced by Nabokov's translation, but preserved the Onegin stanzas ( ISBN 0809316307 ).

Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel, Lolita, utilizes deus ex machina to drive its plot forward: In Chapter 21 of the novel, Charlotte Haze, Humbert Humbert's recent wife and the mother of Dolores " Lolita " Haze, is killed by a moving car in the street.

* Narrative footnotes, which continue the story while commenting on it ( e. g. Nabokov's Pale Fire, House of Leaves, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, Alan Moore's From Hell, Cable & Deadpool by Fabian Nicieza, An Abundance of Katherines by John Green, Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer, many books by Robert Rankin and the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett ).

While it may have been just within bounds in the United States, in 1963 it was still one of 188 books prohibited from import into Australia, along with Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Grace Metalious's Peyton Place, and no fewer than seven books by Henry Miller.

Pressured by Avalanche forward Ryan O ' Reilly, Boyle attempted to ring the puck around the boards behind his net, but it was deflected by O ' Reilly into the Sharks ' net between Nabokov's pad and the post.

In the 1930s, Hutchinson published the first English translations of Vladimir Nabokov's Camera Obscura ( translated by Winifred Roy with Nabokov credted as Vladimir Nabokoff-Sirin ) in 1936 and Despair ( translated by Nabokov himself ) under its John Long marque of paperbacks.

* Lolita ( opera ), a 1992 opera by Rodion Shchedrin based on Nabokov's novel

* 1958 – Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.

Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is a particularly elaborate variation.

An example of this is Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire, the second section of which is a 999 line, 4 canto poem largely written in loose heroic couplets but also allowing for frequent enjambment.

* Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift

* ( 1955 ) In Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Humbert Humbert's childhood sweetheart, Annabel Leigh, dies of typhus.

* Van Veen, the main character of Vladimir Nabokov's Ada or Ardor

* Ada in Vladimir Nabokov's Ada has dreams as a young girl of being a lepidopterist on the fictional planet ' anti-terra '.

* In Vladimir Nabokov's short story, Signs and Symbols, initially published in 1948, the parents of a suicidal youth suffering from a variation of this disease, " Referential Mania ", decide to remove him from a hospital in order to keep a more watchful eye.

Aeolian harps are mentioned in Vladimir Nabokov's classic Lolita.

* Dar, Russian title of Vladimir Nabokov's book The Gift

* In Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, a character checks into a motel under the pseudonym A.

* Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift has the protagonist, Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, study Chernyshevsky and write the critical biography The Life of Chernychevski which represents Chapter Four of the novel.

Vineland may be a play on the word " Hollywood ", a reference to the first Viking settlement in North America, Vinland, or a reference to Andrey Vinelander, a character in Vladimir Nabokov's Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle.

* In Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, the main plot is told through the annotative endnotes of a fictional editor.

However, critical response to Imitations was mixed and sometimes hostile ( as was the case with Vladimir Nabokov's public response to Lowell's Mandelstam translations ).

The Bobolink is also one of the many important ornithological references in Vladimir Nabokov's John Shade's poem " Pale Fire " in the novel of the same name:

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is often described as an erotic novel, but other critics view it more as a literary drama with elements of eroticism.

The phrase is a reference to Vladimir Nabokov's book Lolita, in which a middle-aged man becomes sexually obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl.