Vladimir Nabokov - The Gift

Nabokov’s Dozen

A Russian Beauty and Other Stories

Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories

Details of a Sunset and Other Stories

The Enchanter

The Waltz Invention

Lolita: A Screenplay

The Man from the USSR and Other Plays

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

Strong Opinions

Nikolai Gogol

Lectures on Literature

Lectures on Russian Literature

Lectures on Don Quixote

Three Russian Poets: Translations of Pushkin,

Lermontov, and Tiutchev

A Hero of Our Time (Mikhail Lermontov)

The Song of Igor’s Campaign (Anon.)

Eugene Onegin (Alexander Pushkin)

The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: Correspondence between

Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson, 1940–1971

Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters: 1940–1977

Poems and Problems

The Annotated Lolita

Copyright © 1963 by Article 3C Trust

Under the Will of Vladimir Nabokov

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American

Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. This translation originally published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons in 1963. This edition published by arrangement with the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov.

Portions of this book first appeared in English in The New Yorker . © 1963 by The New Yorker Magazine, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899–1977.

[Dar. English]

The gift: a novel/by Vladimir Nabokov; translated from the Russian by Michael Scammell with the collaboration of the author.–

1st Vintage international ed.

p. cm.–(Vintage international)

eISBN: 978-0-307-78777-4

I. Title.

PG3476.N3D313 1991

891.73’42-dc20 90-50624

Cover art by Rodrigo Corral

Cover photograph by Alison Gootee

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