Vladimir Nabokov

A spectacularly illustrated and probing biography of the one of the twentieth century's most ingenious writers of prose-both Russian and English-Vladimir Nabokov examines Nabokov's life from his youth in pre-Revolutionary Russia through exile in London, Paris, Berlin, and finally America. The photographs and illustrations in this volume, many previously unpublished, range from early photographs of the Nabokovs' estates in Russia to hand-corrected manuscript pages, first-edition book jackets, and examples of Nabokov's lifelong passion for butterflies.Grayson, Jane is the author of 'Vladimir Nabokov', published 2005 under ISBN 9781585676095 and ISBN 1585676098.