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Excerpts from Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov, copyright © 1969, 1970 by the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov. Used by permission of Vintage Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, and by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov, copyright © 1947, copyright renewed 1975 by the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov. Used by permission of Vintage Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, and by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from Despair by Vladimir Nabokov, copyright © 1965, 1966, copyright renewed 1994 by the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov. Used by permission of Vintage Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, and by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov, copyright © 1963, copyright renewed 1991 by the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov. Used by permission of Vintage Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, and by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov, copyright © 1938 by Vladimir Nabokov; copyright renewed 1966 by Vladimir Nabokov now controlled by Dmitri Nabokov. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Excerpts from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, copyright © 1955 by Vladimir Nabokov, copyright renewed 1983 by the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov. Used by permission of Vintage Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, and by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from Look at the Harlequins! by Vladimir Nabokov, copyright © 1974 by the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov. Used by permission of Vintage Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, and by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov, copyright © 1990 by the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, and by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov, Copyright © 2009 by Dmitri Nabokov. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, and by permission of Penguin Random House UK. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, copyright © Article 3C under the will of Vladimir Nabokov, 1962, published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1962. Reprinted by permission of The Orion Publishing Group, London.

Excerpts from Vladimir Nabokov, from The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, copyright ©1941 by New Directions; copyright renewed 1968 by Vladimir Nabokov. Copyright © 1959 by New Directions. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

“Rain” and “A Poem,” from Selected Poems by Vladimir Nabokov, copyright © 2012 by The Estate of Vladimir Nabokov. Published in the United Kingdom as Collected Poems. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, and by permission of Penguin Random House UK. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov, copyright © 1995 by Dmitri Nabokov. Published in the United Kingdom as Collected Stories, copyright © Article 3C under the will of Vladimir Nabokov, 1965, 1966. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, and by permission of The Orion Publishing Group, London. All rights reserved.