Nabokov's Butterflies

Nabokov's Butterflies
Author: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 820
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780807085400

"Literature and Lepidoptera dance an elaborate pas de deux through seventy years of Vladimir Nabokov's life, from his boyhood in Russia to his life as an emigre in the Crimea, Berlin, France, the United States, and finally in Switzerland. An American literary giant, Nabokov also produced first-rate work as a scientist, and in his fiction and elsewhere eloquently advocated attention to the details of the natural world and promoted the delights of discovery." "Nabokov's Butterflies presents Nabokov's twin passions through an astonishingly rich array of novel selections, stories, poems, screenplay, autobiography, criticism, lecturers, articles, reviews, interviews, letters, and notes, plus a wealth of beautiful and fanciful drawings by Nabokov and photographs of him in the field."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Nabokov's Butterfly and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books

Nabokov's Butterfly and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books
Author: R. A. Gekoski
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780786714520

A collector of rare books shares his personal experiences with twenty important volumes and other literary items, including a signed copy of Sylvia Plath's The Colossus, a copy of Nabokov's Lolita from Graham Greene, and the sale of J. R. R. Tolkien's college gown.

Fine Lines

Fine Lines
Author: Stephen Hardwick Blackwell
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300194552

This volume reproduces 154 of Russian-American novelist and entomologist Vladimir Nabokov's drawings, few of which have ever been seen in public, and presents essays by ten leading scientists and Nabokov scholars. The contributors underscore the significance of Nabokov's drawings as scientific documents, evaluate his visionary contributions to evolutionary biology and systematics, and offer insights into his unique artistic perception and creativity. Showcasing color drawings of butterflies' distinctive markings and anatomy as well, all as part of his work at the American Museum of Natural History and Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Nabokov's Blues

Nabokov's Blues
Author: Kurt Johnson
Publisher: Schaum's Outline Series
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780071373302

During the 1940s Vladimir Nabokov was an acknowldged experts in Blues, a diverse group of Latin American butterflies. This book, which is part biography, explores the worldwide crisis in biodiversity and the place of butterflies in Nabokov's fiction.

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov
Author: Brian Boyd
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 833
Release: 2016-06-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1400884039

The story of Nabokov's life continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940. He found that supporting himself and his family was not easy--until the astonishing success of Lolita catapulted him to world fame and financial security.

Véra's Butterflies

Véra's Butterflies
Author: Sarah Funke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

Stalking Nabokov

Stalking Nabokov
Author: Brian Boyd
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2013-06-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0231158572

In this book, Brian Boyd surveys Vladimir Nabokov's life, career, and legacy; his art, science, and thought; his subtle humor and puzzle-like storytelling; his complex psychological portraits; and his inheritance from, reworking of, and affinities with Shakespeare, Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Machado de Assis. Boyd also offers new ways of reading Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada or Ardor, and the unparalleled autobiography, Speak, Memory, disclosing otherwise unknown information about the author's world. Sharing his personal reflections as he recounts the adventures, hardships, and revelations of researching Nabokov's life? oeuvre?, he cautions against using Nabokov's metaphysics as the key to unlocking all of the enigmatic author's secrets. Assessing and appreciating Nabokov as novelist, memoirist, poet, translator, scientist, and individual, Boyd helps us understand more than ever Nabokov's multifaceted genius.

Insomniac Dreams

Insomniac Dreams
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2019-11-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0691196907

First publication of an index-card diary in which Nabokov recorded sixty-four dreams and subsequent daytime episodes, allowing the reader a glimpse of his innermost life.