When I was in my mid-20's I read something by Nabokov, I actually don't remember what it was anymore, and it bowled me over so much that I begin buying everything I could find of his. Within a couple of years I had read everything that had been published at that point. In the intervening 30+ years I have picked up and read this or that, rereading at some point, Lolita, and perhaps Despair but not much else other then a copy of his collected short stories given to me by Betsy for a birthday. For the past several years I have been in a rereading mood and have thought I would like to enjoy his complete works, in chronological order. I thought I would record some of my impressions. We'll see how long that resolve holds.
A look at this simple Wikipedia bibliography shows that I still have almost all of these books. The only ones I can't find are those couple that hadn't been published and the very first one, Mary. It was a very simple mass market paperback of an attractive young woman on the cover, probably an attempt by the publisher to capitalize on Lolita fame though in my memory it was a far cry from Lolita. I'll look for it.
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