Linking various minor events, this work switches back-and-forth producing an illusion of impetus.

Set in the Caucasus, the scene of Russia's military campaigns in the 19th century, this is both an adventure story and a sardonic look at the heroic ideals of the author's contemporaries - which makes it all the more ironic that the main character, Pushkin, (like the author) was killed in a duel.

Takes us into the prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come.

Includes sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy that display a range of inventiveness, with fairy tales, intellectual games and glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss.

A novel about a wonderfully large man called Philip Wild, married to a very promiscuous woman, and whose meditations concern the nature of death.

An autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. It tells the story of Fyodor's pursuits as a writer.

A novella in which a middle-aged man weds an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her daughter.

Dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz.

This is a collection of Nabokov's stories in one volume. Drawn from four previous collections that are now out-of-print, and including 13 extra stories, these 65 stories are presented in chronological order, with the author's original introductions.

A collection of poems that includes: The University Poem , A Literary Dinner , Eve , An Evening of Russian Poetry , Tolstoy , as well as verse written on America, lepidoptery, sport, love and the author's Russian homeland.