The true life of Sebastian Knight, published in 1941 and Barra siniestra, appeared in 1947, received commendable praise from critics, but they received a warm welcome from the public. This, together with the difficulties with the censorship that would have its next work, Lolita, made it not until 1955, with the publication in Paris of this last novel, when the name of Nabokov reached world-wide celebrity. The book, adapted to the cinema by its author in a script that is translated for the first time in this volume, was directed finally by Stanley Kubrick. The book contains the unpublished script of Lolita. Complete this volume Pnin, a satirical novel with a typically Nabokovian character: Russian teacher Timofei Pnin, emigrated to the United States.