NPPF Preliminary -- Online Resources for VN and PF

Jasper Fidget jasper at hatguild.org
Sat Jun 21 10:11:51 CDT 2003


Online Resources: 

General VN:
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Zembla (probably the largest VN site):
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/

Random House's VN site (with bio and chronology):
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/nabokov/index.html

A biography of VN (from Zembla): 
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/bio.htm

A chronology of his life from the same site (from Zembla):
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/nabokr.htm

A list of works (from Zembla):
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/works.htm

Index of criticism from Zembla:
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/critic.htm 

VN Collations (from Zembla):
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/vncol.htm

The Nabokov-L homepage and archives:
http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html

New York Public Library's Nabokov exhibit (very cool!):
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/epo/nabokov/

Nabokov page at CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/books/1999/nabokov/

Wellesley College Russian Department VN page:
http://www.wellesley.edu/Russian/gembala.html

A photo exhibit of VN from Ardis Books:
http://www.ardisbooks.com/pub_archives_vn1.asp

VN's drawings of butterflies:
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/specials/9904/nabokov.butterfly.gallery/frame
set.exclude.html

VN essay on butterflies from Atlantic Monthly:
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/04/nabokov.htm

Brian Boyd's introduction to _Speak Memory_:
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/nabokov/speak.html

Apparently all or most of VN's work online (mostly in Russian):
http://lib.ru/NABOKOW/

>From the above site, the interviews are in English:
http://lib.ru/NABOKOW/#14

An essay on VN and Alfred Hitchcock:
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue03/features/hitchnab1.htm

Extensive collection of VN links:
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/classics/russian/nabokov/

Another VN site:
http://www.fulmerford.com/waxwing/nabokov.html

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_Pale Fire_:
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Critical works online for _Pale Fire_ (from Zembla):
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/wpale.htm

A _Pale Fire_ bibliography (from Zembla):
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/bibpf.htm

_Pale Fire_ cover art:
http://www.fulmerford.com/waxwing/postcards/pc12.html

Another cover:
http://fulmerford.tripod.com/annex/nabokov/palefire.jpg

Brief discussion of the first verse of "Pale Fire" (applying BoLa)
http://art3idea.ce.psu.edu/boundaries/basics/cc_nabokov.html

The NY Observer article already posted:
http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=1085#top

A hypertext version of Pale Fire (in Russian):
http://lib.ru/NABOKOW/palefirehtm.txt

Lengthy interview with Brian Boyd concerning his 1999 _Pale Fire_ book:
http://www.bombsite.com/boyd/boyd.html

Hypertext theory essay including a section on _Pale Fire_:
http://www.bombsite.com/boyd/boyd.html

_Pale Fire_ discussion questions:
http://www2.msstate.edu/~jwb4/pale_fire.html

Essay on word golf:
http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev10/r10bae.htm

_Pale Fire_ Wikipedia:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Fire

VN reading from _Pale Fire_ (in RealPlayer format):
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nabokov3.ram
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nabokov4.ram 




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