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

* 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.

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

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

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

* Nabokov's Congeries, a collection of work by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov published in 1968 and reprinted in 1971 as The Portable Nabokov

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

* 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.

* 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

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.

* 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.

* Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin and Pale Fire

Lansquenet is played by two soldiers on a stone bench under an enclosed poplar as mentioned in Kinbote's note to line 130 in Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov.

Their eldest son was the writer and lepidopterist Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, who portrayed his father in his memoirs ( Speak, Memory, 1967 ); V. V. Nabokov included in his novel Pale Fire a scene of misdirected assassination evoking the death of his father.

These are the first lines of the poem " Pale Fire " by " John Shade ", a fictional poet created by Vladimir Nabokov, for his novel Pale Fire.

According to experts on the writing of Vladimir Nabokov, this species almost certainly inspired the waxwing mentioned prominently in his novel Pale Fire.

The Red Admiral is the butterfly featured by Vladimir Nabokov, an amateur lepidopterist, in his novel " Pale Fire ".

Vladimir Nabokov borrowed the title for his novel Pale Fire from this quotation of Timon's in Act IV, Scene III:

The latter paragraph is used as the epigraph to Vladimir Nabokov's acclaimed poem / novel Pale Fire.

John Shade is a fictional character in Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire.

Charles Kinbote is the unreliable narrator in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire.

James Joyce's Ulysses ( 1922 ), Enrique Jardiel Poncela's La Tournée de Dios ( 1932 ), Jorge Luis Borges ' The Garden of Forking Paths ( 1941 ), Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire ( 1962 ) and Julio Cortázar's Rayuela ( 1963 ; translated as Hopscotch ) are early examples predating the word " hypertext ", while a common pop-culture example is the Choose Your Own Adventure series in young adult fiction and other similar gamebooks.

* Vladimir Nabokov refers to the poem in his novel Pale Fire:

A significant postmodern example is Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, in which the narrator, Kinbote, claims he is writing an analysis of John Shade's long poem " Pale Fire ", but the narrative of the relationship between Shade and Kinbote is presented in what is ostensibly the footnotes to the poem.

Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire includes a parody of an index, reflecting the insanity of the narrator.

* Pale Fire, a novel by Vladimir Nabokov in the form of a long, pedantic, self-centered commentary on a much shorter poem.

Boyd ’ s 1999 book, Nabokov ’ s Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery, attracted attention both for the novelty of Boyd ’ s reading of Pale Fire and for his rejecting his own influential interpretation of the notoriously elusive novel in Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years.

* The summary of Omry Ronen ’ s article, “ Historical Modernism, Artistic Innovation and Myth-Making in Vladimir Nabokov ’ s System of Value Judgements ” ( Philogica 7, 2001 / 2002 ), hints at the possibility that Vladimir Nabokov may have parodied Bodkin ’ s Archetypal Patterns of Poetry in his novel Pale Fire.

* Vladimir Nabokov-Pale Fire