Sign up to our emails and be the first to know about new releases, special offers and more.
Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!
Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre to view your orders, change your details, or view your lists, or sign out.
Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Vladimir Nabokov
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.
In stock at 3 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 3 shops
The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade’s editor…
In stock at 7 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 7 shops
Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart of campus America. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this…
In stock at 4 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 4 shops
Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with a man he…
In stock at 2 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 2 shops
Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition
In stock at 8 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 8 shops
A romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle’s country estate, in a ‘dream-bright’ America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross…
Paul Benedict Grant
The first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov's humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick, sexual and scatological humour
Order online and we’ll ship when availablePre-order now
Thirteen strangely wrought stories make up Nabokov’s baker’s dozen.
In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, mangled by it, with nowhere to escape to…
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady’s twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he’ll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is…
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he’ll do anything to possess. Is he in love or…
Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, ‘to fix once for all the perilous…
Thirteen ingeniously crafted stories make up Vladimir Nabokov's baker's dozen.
The now classic story of Humbert Humbert’s obsession with the twelve-year-old Lolita.
In stock at 6 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 6 shops
An autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers…
Hilarious, intelligent and moving, Pnin is the tale of a generation irrevocably severed from its past
Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart…
Dr Julie Loison-Charles
Exploring the deeply translational and transnational nature of the writings of Vladimir Nabokov, this book argues that all his work is unified by the permanent presence of three cultures and…
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.
David Rampton
Vladimir Nabakov considers the novelist’s aesthetic precepts and practice and the character of his work and the book also gives consideration of his fiction in the larger context of the…
Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order
Barbara Wyllie
‘I am almost exclusively a writer, and my style is all I have’, wrote Vladimir Nabokov (1899 1977). This book presents an account of the life and works of the…
Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order
Neil Cornwell
In the WRITERS AND THEIR WORK series, a critical survey of the short stories, essays and five of the major novels by the Russian author, Vladimir Nabokov. It is written…
A major publishing event from one of the greatest prose stylists of our time, The Complete Short Stories of Vladimir Nabokov brings together all of Nabokov’s short fiction in one…
An extraordinary collection of Nabokov’s little-known published material from across his life - from student essays to his last interviews
The last major collection of Nabokov’s published material, Think, Write…
Fredson Bowers,Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
The acclaimed author of Lolita offers unique insight into works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, and others – with an introduction by John Updike.
Stephen Jan Parker Parker,Greg Johnson
Understanding Contemporary American Literature was planned as a series of guides or companions for students as well as good non-academic readers. These volumes provide instruction in how to read certain…
Brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century’s master prose writers. The twenty-eight interviews and profiles in this collection were drawn from Nabokov’s numerous print and broadcast…
Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order
Indispensable for understanding the historical, cultural and intellectual contexts of Nabokov’s work for students of English, American and Russian literary and cultural studies. This book is also essential reading for…
This first novel published by Vladamir Nabokov tells the story of a man, spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by…
Berlin in the late twenties provides the setting for this novel about a woman’s scheme to murder her husband to live on his money with his nephew.
When Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel…
Biblioteka REC I MISAO fototipsko izdanje
This, the narrator tells us, is the real life of famous author Sebastian Knight, the inside story. After Knight’s death, his half-brother sets out to penetrate the mystery of the…
Vladimir Nabokov’s brilliant, endlessly inventive imagination and pyrotechnical literary genius continue to astound in the stories The Return of Chorb, The Aurelian, Russian Spoken Here, Cloud, Castle, Lake, Mademoiselle O…
Nabokov’s first novel is now available in a trade paper edition. Here is the dark tale of a handsome officer who lives next door to his lover’s husband in a…
Ganin, a young Russian exiled in Berlin between the wars, dreams of leaving the city while recalling his childhood and adolescence in Russia and his early romance with Mashenka, a…
Nabokov nos da las pautas para una lectura sagaz, heterodoxa y apasionante de grandes libros europeos
Vladimir Nabokov, lejos de generalidades y teorizaciones, ensena a sus alumnos a acariciar los…
In this collection of interviews, articles, and editorials, Nabokov ranges over his life, art, education, politics, literature, movies, and modern times, among other subjects. Strong Opinions offers his trenchant, witty…
Hugh is a North American editor who goes on various trips to Switzerland over the years. As a result of these trips, he will fall in love, gets married, becomes…
The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov’s classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with…
The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine Average Man party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has…
Traces the bleak life of Hugh Person through murder, madness, prison and trips to Switzerland. This novel sinks into the transparent things of the world that surround this one Person…
Irresistibly ironic, this chilling novel of folly and destruction is about a January to May romance between a sensitive, middle-aged man and a cretinous girl half his age.