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Fifty-four years of letters to the one person who mattered most. From 1923 to 1977, Vladimir Nabokov wrote to his wife Véra above all others. Letters to Véra gathers that extraordinary correspondence — hundreds of letters spanning five decades, from their first meeting in émigré Berlin through exile, war, poverty, and eventual literary triumph in America.
The dazzling author of Lolita, Pale Fire, and Pnin appears here in an entirely different light: playful, tender, and utterly devoted. His letters are full of wit and linguistic brilliance, but they reveal a private man — one who invented pet names, shared his dreams, fretted over money, and confessed his complete emotional dependence on Véra, his first reader, typist, editor, and fierce guardian of his creative time.
Edited and translated by his biographer Brian Boyd and Olga Voronina, with illuminating annotations, this volume is at once one of literature’s great love stories and an intimate portrait of a writer at work. Essential for Nabokov readers and romantics alike: proof that behind the cool perfection stood a man who loved with his whole heart.
From 1923 to 1977, Vladimir Nabokov wrote to one person above all others: his wife, Véra. Letters to Véra gathers that extraordinary correspondence — hundreds of letters written across five decades, from their first meeting in émigré Berlin through exile, war, poverty, and eventual literary triumph in America.
Nabokov, the dazzling author of Lolita, Pale Fire, and Pnin, appears here in an entirely different light: playful, tender, and utterly devoted. His letters are full of the wit and linguistic brilliance readers expect, but they reveal a private man — one who invented pet names, shared his dreams, fretted over money, and confessed his complete emotional dependence on Véra. She was not only his wife but his first reader, typist, editor, and fierce guardian of his creative time.
Edited and translated by Brian Boyd — Nabokov’s biographer — and Olga Voronina, with illuminating annotations, this Vintage International volume spans the Russian émigré years in Europe, the wartime escape to America in 1940, and the decades of success that followed. It is at once one of literature’s great love stories and an intimate portrait of a writer at work.
For Nabokov readers and romantics alike, Letters to Véra is essential: proof that behind the cool perfection of the prose stood a man who loved with his whole heart.
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