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A complete collection of Nabokov's short stories, the "magician of words" - "these short stories are miracles of English literature". 68 Short stories in different styles, edited by Nabokov's son Dmitry in chronological order. The man at the desk at night is disturbed by an uninvited guest, who turns out to be a wood elf from his hometown; the long-lost son reunites with his mother, but appears at an extremely embarrassing moment; the exiled barber named "Razor" shaves the man who once persecuted him; the groom has to report the bride's death to his father-in-law after the honeymoon; A shy dreamer makes a soul-deal with the devil... In these dark and magical stories, Nabokov perfectly demonstrates dazzling novel techniques, wild imagination and intellectual games, and fascinating insights into the unavoidable ambiguity and loss in life. They are called "the miracle of English literature".

The novel "Lolita" is the famous work of Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov and a landmark work of world literature. It has become a modern literary classic because of its complexity and artistry. The introduction collector's edition adds a long introduction before the text of the novel. It is written by Alfred Appel Jr., Nabokov's student at Cornell University and a recognized Nabokov research expert and cultural historian. It guides the reader from the three major aspects of "puppetry", "background" and "ingenious techniques", taking readers to appreciate the large number of word games, literary allusions and social customs that Nabokov carefully woven into "Lolita". This introduction also records the conversation between Appel and Nabokov himself, from which we can get a glimpse of the writer's writing motivation, theme, purpose, etc. In addition, anecdotes of film adaptations, the hobby of catching butterflies, long-term and passionate devotion, and various stubborn reading interests are also involved. The introduction records that Nabokov is both concerned about serious propositions and obsessed with trivial things. This contradictory expression obviously also remains in "Lolita".

"The Complete Collection of Nabokov's Short Stories" is the first complete collection of the literary master Nabokov's short stories in the country. 68 Short stories in different styles, edited by Nabokov's son Dmitry in chronological order. The man at the desk at night is disturbed by an uninvited guest, who turns out to be a wood elf from his hometown; the long-lost son reunites with his mother, but appears at an extremely embarrassing moment; the exiled barber named "Razor" shaves the man who once persecuted him; the groom has to report the bride's death to his father-in-law after the honeymoon; A shy dreamer makes a soul-deal with the devil... In these dark and magical stories, Nabokov perfectly demonstrates dazzling novel techniques, wild imagination and intellectual games, and fascinating insights into the unavoidable ambiguity and loss in life. They are called "the miracle of English literature".

"Ada or Eros" is the pinnacle work of Vladimir Nabokov, the author of "Lolita" and the master of novels. It was written in Nabokov's later years. It is the longest of all his works and one of the novels that he attaches most importance to. It forms an incomparable trilogy with "Lolita" and "Dark Fire". The story takes place on a planet called "Counterland". In the summer of 1884, 14-year-old Van Veen visited his aunt's house in Aldis Manor and met his two cousins ​​for the first time - 12-year-old Ada and 8-year-old Lucette. Fan and Ada are attracted to each other, and thus begin a life-long affair shrouded in the family's confusing historical background. They also accidentally involve Lucette in their fiery wheel of destiny. Nabokov used his skillful novel techniques to build a complicated labyrinth of words, incorporating his experience of passion and philosophy about time to construct an endless life story.

This book is one of Nabokov's lesser-known biographies. The author takes readers into Gogol's youth, looks through his early works, and provides detailed reviews of his collection of The Imperial Envoy and the first volume of Dead Souls. He also briefly reviews Gogol's most famous short story, "The Overcoat." In the book, Nabokov explores Gogol's unique writing style, using multiple fragments of his own translation to prove Gogol's impeccable prose. He emphasized not the plots of Gogol's works but their style, and successfully showed another side of Gogol, who was known for his satire.

The poetic works of Nabokov, the great stylist of the 20th century, are presented for the first time in the Chinese world, with 90 representative poems covering a 59-year poetry journey. Like Joyce, Nabokov was first and foremost a poet. His obsession with writing poetry began in the summer when he was fifteen, and over the next ten years he wrote thousands of poems. When his first novel, Mary, was published in 1926, Nabokov became one of the great modernists who revolutionized the novel and imbued it with poetry. At the same time, he was still writing poetry, and although the volume was not as good as in his early days, his interest and personality more than made up for it. These poems share the same ideas and themes as his novels and complement each other. "The Collected Poems of Nabokov" contains nearly one hundred poems by Vladimir Nabokov, spanning his fifty-nine years of poetry creation, including Nabokov's earliest surviving work "Music", the long poem "The University Psalms" with a capacity comparable to a short story, and a new translation translated by his son Dmitry for the first time.

"Laughter in the Dark" was written in Berlin in 1932 under the title "Camera Obscura". It was published in Paris and Berlin. It was translated into English by Way Loy in 1936 and published in London under its original name. In 1938, it was significantly revised and re-translated by Nabokov himself and published in New York under the name "Laughter in the Dark". The novel imitates the kind of cheap love triangle stories popular in movies in the 1920s and 1930s. It uses the movie as its title at the beginning to introduce the relationship between the main characters. The actor Obinus wants to use the new technique of animation to "animate" the paintings of ancient masters, and proposes to cooperate with the caricature painter Rex. Obinas fell in love with the theater usher Margot at first sight. Margot, who was "obsessed with watching movies," dreamed of becoming a movie star. When she was convinced that he belonged to a class that could "provide the conditions for her to be on stage and screen," she decided to associate with him. The banquet hosted by Obinas to entertain the stars creates an opportunity for Margot to reunite with her former lover Rex, thus forming a triangle relationship until the novel ends in tragedy.

"Remembering the past, fascinating love." The novel master Nabokov's first attempt to make his name famous. Wilderness, autumn sun, cold rain, white birches, winter snow... The first love of the past is intertwined with the scenery of the motherland, and the memory is awakened by a name. "Mary" is the first novel of Nabokov, a recognized master of novels in the 20th century. It has extraordinary significance to the author himself: "Because Russia is unusually far away, and because homesickness is always your obsessed companion in a person's life... I admit my strong emotional attachment to this debut novel, and I am not embarrassed by it at all." Ganin, a Russian officer in Berlin, learned from his neighbor In a photo, he accidentally discovered that the neighbor's waiting wife, Mary, turned out to be his first love in middle school; in the following days, Ganin kept reminiscing about the beautiful past with his lover, so he set the neighbor's alarm clock slow and went to pick up Mary on his behalf, hoping to rekindle the old relationship... The author uses extremely keen sensibility and delicate writing to show the nostalgia for his first love and his motherland to the extreme. Russia's vast fields, autumn sun, cold rain, white birches, and winter snow reflect the past in the bright maze of memory.

"The only happiness in the world is to observe, spy, monitor, and examine oneself and others." Nabokov, the master of novels, plays with his techniques in this short novel. It is a short, bizarre and humorous detective story in the style of an allegory. It is a world in the eyes of a "multi-faceted man". "The Eye" is a long masterpiece by Nabokov, a recognized master of novels in the 20th century. It parodies the style of detective novels and tells the life of the protagonist Smurov. Smurov enjoys observing, spying, and examining himself and others. Due to his special identity, he only sees himself and others through the eyes of others, and protects his identity from being discovered. And his existence always depends on the reflection in other people's minds: a liar, a cruel officer, a sensitive young man, a decent gentleman, or a poor man who cannot love. The author weaves wonderful multiple worlds with coded text as crystal clear as raindrops, leading readers into a narrative maze, tracking Smurov's true identity, analyzing the intentions of the mysterious narrator behind it, and experiencing the pleasure of solving a mystery - "doing nothing else, just making a big, slightly glass-colored, slightly bloodshot, unblinking eye."