: The letters chronicle a half-century-long love story. The earliest missives from 1920s Berlin are the lightest, filled with romance, linguistic riddles, and an "infectious fascination" with the world.
: The edition includes nearly 200 pages of endnotes by editors Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd, identifying almost every person and butterfly Nabokov mentions, making it a "gold standard" for scholars. Purchase Information Letters to Vera
Letters to Véra is a monumental collection of correspondence from the 20th-century master Vladimir Nabokov to his wife, Véra Slonim. Spanning from their first meeting in 1923 until his death in 1977, the volume provides an intimate, often playful, and sometimes excruciatingly raw look into one of literature's most enduring marriages. : The letters chronicle a half-century-long love story