کتاب  Vintage Nabokov Oiginal Novelist poet critic translator and above all a peerless imaginer Vladimir Nabokov was arguably the most dazzling prose stylist of the twentieth century In novels like Lolita Pale Fire and Ada or Ardor he turned language into an instrument of ecstasy  Vintage Nabokovincludes sections 110 of his most famous and controversial novel Lolita the stories The Return of Chorb The Aurelian A Forgotten Poet Time and Ebb Signs and Symbols The Vane Sisters and Lanceand chapter 12 from his memoir Speak Memory Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers  It was Nabokovs gift to bring paradise wherever he alighted John Updike The New York Review of Books