Essays on Vladimir Nabokov

The twenty-year stay of Nabokov in America, which began May 25, 1940, was associated with a typical emigrant life issues. A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge taught at Stanford and Cornell University, he taught Russian language and literature, as he himself said, “the sons and daughters of the industrial America” (Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years, 47). Summer leisure time he spent traveling through the vast continent, without ceasing to write, and catch butterflies, which was associated with it work in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. No matter how Nabokov insisted during the last 20 years of ...

The book jacket is the outer cover of a book that has colorful pictures and words. The back of the cover has flaps displaying the author’s biography. The book jacket makes effort to promote the book and protect the book from damage. Jamie Keenan and Chipp Kidd are examples of graphic designers who produce the book jacket. This paper compares and contrasts Keenan and Kidd works as graphic designers. The two are some of the best graphic designers in the world and have an enormous contribution in designing book jacket. Chipp Kidd is a renowned book designer in the ...

“A Russian beauty” is a story by Russian American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. This literary work was written much before his famous literary creations like “Lolita”. It gives readers a glimpse of Nabokov’s early life when he used to struggle in the area of writing. The story lets readers peep into contemporary society and mindset of people. This paper intends to discuss the story along with presenting a textual analysis of “A Russian Beauty”. The narrative is written in a natural way and indicates about the adolescence of the author. Nabokov hardly suggests much about his story. The story revolves around a pretty ...