The story of Nabokov's life continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940. He found that supporting himself and his family was not easy—until the astonishing success of Lolita catapulted him to world fame and financial security.
Brian Boyd is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of the prize-winning Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (Princeton 1990), Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (Princeton 1991), and Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness. Referred to in a recent journal as "the great man of Nabokov studies," he has also edited Nabokov's English novels and autobiography for the Library of America and Nabokov's Butterflies for Beacon Press.
Table of Contents
Frontmatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. ix
List of Illustrations, pg. xiii
Introduction, pg. 1
1. Refuge: New York and Stanford, 1940–1941, pg. 9
2. Visiting Lecturer: Wellesley and Cambridge, 1941–1942, pg. 35
3. Scientist, Writer, Teacher: Cambridge and Wellesley, 1943–1944, pg. 58
4. Permanent Impermanence: Cambridge and Wellesley, 1944–1946, pg. 77
5. Bend Sinister, pg. 93
6. Teaching Literature at Last: Cambridge and Wellesley, 1946–1948, pg. 107
7. Russian Professor: Cornell, 1948–1950, pg. 129
8. Conclusive Evidence/Speak, Memory, pg. 149
9. Teaching European Fiction: Cornell, 1950–1951, pg. 166
10. Finding Time for Lolita: Cornell and Harvard, 1951–1953, pg. 199
