Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as a classic not to the controversy its subject matter aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. With an introduction by Martin...

Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European...

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov, part of the Penguin Clothbound Classics series, is a captivating work of literary fiction that showcases Nabokov's wit, humor, and profound empathy. This novel features one of Nabokov's most endearing and amusing characters, Professor Timofey Pnin, a disoriented Russian migr...