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Nabokov, Vladimir
Russian-born American b.1899 d.1977

  1. In Adams, Robert Martin. After Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. pp. 146-161.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Ada -- Lolita -- Pale Fire

  2. In Alter, Robert. Partial magic : the novel as a self-conscious genre. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1975. pp. 180-217.
    Criticism -- Works -- Pale Fire

  3. In Balakian, Nona and Simmons, Charles, eds. The creative present; notes on contemporary American fiction. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1963. pp. 63-78.
    Criticism -- Works

  4. In Cohen, Sarah Blacher, ed. Comic relief : humor in contemporary American literature. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1978. pp. 28-44
    Criticism -- Lolita -- Pale Fire

  5. In Dickstein, Morris. Leopards in the Temple. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002. pp. 119-128.
    Criticism -- Works -- Lolita -- Speak, Memory

  6. In Donald, Miles. The American Novel in the Twentieth Century. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1978. pp. 133-140.
    Criticism -- Lolita -- Pale Fire

  7. In Dupree, F. W. "The king of the cats," and other remarks on writers and writing. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1984. pp. 111-148.
    Criticism -- Lolita -- Poetry

  8. In Garvin, Harry R. Makers of the Twentieth- Century Novel. Lewisburg, [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, c1977. pp. 259-275.
    Criticism -- Pnin

  9. In Hardwick, Elizabeth. American Fictions. New York : Modern Library, 1999. pp. pp. 212-217.
    Criticism -- Works

  10. In Harrison, Gilbert, ed. The Critic as Artist, New York, Liveright, 1972. pp. 16-26 323-332.
    Criticism -- Defense -- Despair

  11. In Hicks Granville. Literary Horizions: A Quarter Century of American Fiction. New York: New York University Press, 1970. pp. 209-223.
    Criticism -- Pnin -- Lolita -- The Gift

  12. In Hyman, Stanley Edgar, 1919-1970. The critic's credentials : essays & reviews. New York : Atheneum, 1978. pp. 253-258.
    Criticism -- Despair

  13. In Josipovici, Gabriel. The World and the Book. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1971. pp. 201-220.
    Criticism -- Laughter in the Dark -- Lolita

  14. In Kazin, Alfred Bright book of life: American novelists and storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer. Boston, Little, Brown [1973]. pp. 295-318.
    Criticism -- Works

  15. In Kenner, Hugh. Historical Fictions. San Francisco : North Point Press, 1990. pp. 300-304.
    Criticism -- Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories

  16. In Kermode, Frank Puzzles and epiphanies. New York : Columbia University Press, 1976. pp. 228-234.
    Criticism -- Bend Sinisiter

  17. In Kernan, Alvin B. The imaginary library : an essay on literature and society. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1982. pp. 89-129.
    Criticism -- Pale Fire

  18. In Nemerov, Howard Poetry and fiction: essays. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press [c1963]. pp. 260-269.
    Criticism -- Lolita -- Nabokov's Dozen -- Pnin

  19. In Plimpton, George. Writers at Work, Fourth Series. New York : Viking Press, 1976. pp. 91-105.
    Interviews --

  20. In Podhoretz, Norman. Norman Podhoretz Reader. New York : Free Press, c2004. pp. 310-315, 325-326.
    Criticism -- Lolita

  21. In Ragussis, Michael. Acts of Naming: The Family Plot in Fiction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. pp. 165-191.
    Criticism -- Lolita

  22. Russell, James. "Fantasies Conjured from War". In New Leader, Vol. 87, No. 3, May/June 2004, pp 15+.
    Criticism -- Pale Fire

  23. In Simon, John. Sheep from the Goats. New York : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, c1989. pp. 345-355.
    Criticism -- Ada

  24. In Smiley, Jane. 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel. New York : Knopf, c2005. pp. 493-497.
    Criticism -- Lolita

  25. In Tanner, Tony. City of Words: American Fiction 1950-1970. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. pp. 33-49.
    Criticism -- Pale Fire

  26. In Trilling, Lionel. The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2000. pp. 354-371.
    Criticism -- Lolita

  27. Tweedie, James. "Lolita's Loose Ends: Nabokov and the Boundless Novel." In Twenteith Century Literature, Vol. 46, No. 2, Summer 2000, pp. 150-170.
    Criticism -- Lolita

  28. In Updike, John. More Matter. New York: Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1999. pp. 287-290.
    Criticism -- Short Stories

  29. In Wallace, Ronald. Last Laugh . Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1979. pp. 65-89.
    Criticism -- Lolita

  30. In Warner, Marina. Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. pp. 116-118.
    Criticism -- "Christmas" -- Lolita

  31. In Wright, George T. Seven American Literary Stylists from Poe to Mailer. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1973. pp. 162-199.
    Criticism -- Works

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